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Michael Weghorn f26084217a weld: Move weld::Button to own header/Rename weld.hxx
In the past, weld.hxx used to contain the class
definitions for weld::Widget and all subclasses.

By now, weld::Widget and almost all subclasses have
been moved to separate headers, to make it easier
to keep the overview and to avoid having to
recompile ~all UI code when one class changes.

By now, only weld::Button is left in weld.hxx.
Rename the header to Button.hxx.
Drop weld.hxx includes and instead add Button.hxx
includes (or weld::Button forward declarations) where
weld::Button is used.
(Don't simply replace all weld.hxx includes with
Button.hxx ones, since many of them were for the
use of other widgets that have since been moved
to their own headers.)

Add further includes where needed now that the
(direct or transitive) includes of weld.hxx were removed.

Change-Id: I8ea6201446a418d5e38b46337059dcd517ee29d7
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/205937
Reviewed-by: Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn@posteo.de>
Tested-by: Jenkins
2026-06-05 07:58:07 +02:00
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LibreOffice Filters

Filter registration and some simple filters (also descriptions).

Desperate splitting of code into small shared libraries for historical reasons presumably (OS/2 and Windows 3.x). The libraries produced from the code in each subdirectory of filter/source/graphicfilter are graphic format import or export filters. But they don't have uniform API. Some have either a GraphicImport or GraphicExport entry point, and are loaded and used in a uniform fashion from code in svtools/source/filter/filter.cxx. Others have different API and are loaded from other places. For instance icgm has ImportCGM, and is loaded and used by sd/source/filter/cgm/sdcgmfilter.cxx (!). Svgreader is used for "File -> Open" and then to choose the svg file. For "Insert -> Picture -> From File", see svgio/source/svgreader directory.

Filter Configuration

The filter configuration consists of two parts, the type definition in filter/source/config/fragments/types/ and the actual filter definition in filter/source/config/fragments/filters/.

Each file type e.g. text file should be represented by exactly one type definition. This type can then be referenced by several different filters, e.g. calc text, writer text.