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Progress on Kross

Thursday, 5 April 2007  |  dipesh

It's a while I blogged last time and a lot happened during that decade. So, let's summarize some lately highlights around the Kross Scripting Framework;

The famous Superkaramba got Kross as optional backend and guess what, we got it managed to stay backward-compatible. For example Aero AIO and A-foto are already running with the next generation of Superkaramba with Kross. Fantastic work Alexander Wiedenbruch provided here.

KOffice2 already rocks and scripting in the next generation KWord2 improved a lot. Beside dozend of sample scripts to demonstrate what's possible, KWord also got a nice python script to connect with OpenOffice.org using Kross and PyUNO to import content from all by OOo supported fileformats and it just works. Meanwhile KSpread2 offers a script that uses the ODFPY module to export selected sheets to custom OpenDocument spreadsheet or document files.

The tutorials about scripting in KWord, KSpread and Krita was assimilated by our great new techbase.

The python and ruby interpreter backends got tons of improvments and landed in kdebindings finally, yay.

...and probably much more I already forget about :)