There is a news item on the blog of Oliver Ruiz Dorantes.

He states he now have all the necessary widgets in the libwalter library to construct a Look-Only basic OOffice prototype (no real coding underneath).

[UPDATE-071216] Oliver himself drop in a comment to tell us that I was wrong in some ways.  The text rendering is made by the software and all the text and style modifications (font color, size, … ) is actually done using the application itself.  The format can also be changed using the controls !  He also added that “…unless saving and loading capabilities.. would be usable now…”  (This time, I’m happy to be wrong :-)

Here is the Looking Candidate running in Haiku.

On his blog you can also find a picture of the prototype running in BeOS as well as some information about the widgets being used.

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3 Comments

Stephen B. on 2007-12-13 at 20:31 (Reply)
That's pretty cool - while editing capability would be ideal, a viewer would still be quite nice when you simply want to grab some info from a file.
BiPolar on 2007-12-14 at 10:56 (Reply)
I bet that "Look-Only" is not intended to be read as "A Viewer App", but instead as just the GUI layout/widgets code for a soon-to-be (let's hope :D) office suite.
Oliver RD on 2007-12-14 at 13:41 (Reply)
Hi,

Well it is not looking only, that styled(font color size changed) text is actually written using the applicatiobn itself, and the format is changed using the controls. So unless saving and loading capabilities.. would be usable now...

Cheers!

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