Re: [Wvware-devel] Some ideas for new winword design.

[Dom L. <ci...@ho...>]

>I'm not sure that your conclusion is valid.  For example, the C++
>library's stream model supports reading both C++ types, and
>user-supplied types, yet it makes very few assumptions regarding what
>it reads/writes.
>
> > So, the approach is rather to implement the facilties to walk the OLE 
>streams
> > as required instead.
>
>I know practically nothing about OLE streams, but could a stream I/O
>model work here?  Could you even extend C++ streams to know about OLE
>types?

Hi Bob,

We could make our OLEStream classes behave like standard C++ iostreams if we 
so chose. There's really nothing called "OLE Types" - an OLE2 stream is 
basically just structured storage for integer data. What's worse is that (in 
order to save disk space probably) most of the MSWord data-types aren't 
written directly to these streams - they are instead represented as what 
basically amounts to a 'binary diff'.

So while it is probably possible to make C++ streams aware of our Word 
structs, it's probably not the wisest decision to make.

Dom
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com