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diff --git a/sfx2/README.md b/sfx2/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3b91584759 --- /dev/null +++ b/sfx2/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Legacy Framework + +`SFX` is the "old" framework, used for historical reasons. + +An attempt of documentation of this module is located in `[git:sfx2/doc]`. + +It contains base classes for document model, view and controller, used +by "old" applications like `sw`, `sc`, `sd` (while "new" applications +are based on the "new" UNO based framework in "framework"). + +The SFX framework is based on dispatching slots identified by integers +(`SlotIDs`) to `SfxShells`, and there is a dedicated IDL compiler (`svidl`) +involved that generates C++ slot headers from SDI files in modules' `sdi/` +subdirectory. + +Documentation about SFX dispatch, SDI etc.: +<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Framework/Article/Implementation_of_the_Dispatch_API_In_SFX2> + +Document load/save code is maintained in `[git:sfx2/source/doc/docfile.cxx`] +`SfxMedium` class, which handles all the twisty load and save corner cases. + +`[git:sfx2/source/appl/sfxhelp.cxx]` Start procedure for the online +help viewer top level window; handling of help URL creation and +dispatch. + +There are also some UNO services here that could really be implemented +anywhere, e.g. the `DocumentProperties` or `DocumentMetadataAccess`. + +Notable files: +`sfx2/source/dialog/backingwindow.cxx` `Startcenter` buttons and the corresponding event handler. |