[Lazarus] Flexible exporter for grid-like components

Werner Pamler werner.pamler at freenet.de
Mon May 2 12:52:06 CEST 2016


> I would have the name of the base class (LazExporter) reflect that it
> is intended for use with "2D-Data", and that it exports text.
TLaz2DTextExporter, or TCustom2DTextExporter? Or anything else?

> The HTML exporter should not (or not always) write a complete HTML
> page, most likely I would use the exporter to create the tables only
> and insert them in an existing HTML document.
> (The default setup IMO should be to just export it to a plain table
> (only table, tr, th, td (and closing) tags.)
I could give the HTMLExporter a corresponding property. But I see the 
main use case of html export in stand-alone html documents, therefore I 
disagree on the default setup (i.e. I'd name the property 
"WriteFragmentOnly" instead of "WriteFullHTML"). And how do you want to 
insert the table in your document? By copy to clipboard? You must 
remember that we had constructed the "Clipboard.SetAsHtml" method such 
as to always write a complete html stream because some Office 
applications want that (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=29146, 
see also comment in front of TClipboard.SetAsHtml).





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