General modification in OpenOffice

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trojan27
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General modification in OpenOffice

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Hello,
I am newbie in open source software development, though I want to start developing openoffice software for My Linux system.
I dont know where to start from. Also I downloaded the source code of openoffice from git repository.
Basically I majorly work on Python programming, I and I know a little about c++ and java.
So I want to make some minor modification such as changing name openoffice to something else and add new extension using python script etc.
I need to know where can I start from?
I am working on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 system.
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Re: General modification in openoffice

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If your aim is to add some functionality to OO, you would be better thinking of an Extension, which could be written in Python or Basic. To attempt to teach you C++ or Java sufficiently to alter and compile OO is beyond the scope of this Forum. For extensions look at

https://www.openoffice.org/udk/python/s ... framework/

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trojan27
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Re: General modification in OpenOffice

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Okay Thanks For reply.
I did some extensions making and macro making part in python. But now I want to change application Title names. I want to change "Openoffice" to "MyOfficesuit".
How can I do that??
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I cannot answer with specifics. Were I designing such a program I would use a constant string, which would be picked up whenever the program name was needed. The code base for OO is (from memory) 300MB; that is the equivalent of 550 copies of War and Peace - too much for me to look into (I'd rather read War and Peace again!).
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Re: General modification in OpenOffice

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Okay!
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