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Description
GOffice is a GObject based C library. It provides easy API access to creating and manipulating graphs and canvases. See GogGraph and GocCanvas. It also includes a number of utilities and widgets that might be useful in office productivity software and similar.
The GOffice code was originally a part of Gnumeric, but was split into a separate library in 2005. Today it is being used by projects such as Gnumeric, Gnucash, Abiword (optional), GChemUtils and more.
GOffice is cross platform, with support for Windows, OSX, GNU/Linux, and other Unix-like systems. It can be built with or without GTK+ integration support.
To include GOffice use:
#include <goffice/goffice.h>
GOffice provides a pkg-config metadata file named "libgoffice-$major.$minor.pc", where $major and $minor denote which version GOffice is. So to link against GOffice 0.10 series, use:
pkg-config --libs libgoffice-0.10
API and ABI compatability is maintained per minor release series, e.g: all 0.8.x releases are ABI/API compatible with previous 0.8.x releases.
Bindings for other languages than C and C++ are available through GObject Introspection. To start using GOffice from Python:
from gi.repository import GOffice GOffice.init()
Functions
libgoffice_init ()
void
libgoffice_init (void);
Initialize GOffice.
This function can be called several times; each call will
increment a reference counter. Code that calls this function should call
libgoffice_shutdown() when done to decrement the counter.
libgoffice_shutdown ()
void
libgoffice_shutdown (void);
Decrements the counter for data initialized by libgoffice_init().
When the counter reaches 0, the data is freed/cleaned up as appropriate.