odd, I tried everything I could to tell the search where to begin. I am happy to use macros to get this working. Do you have an example? I want to tell the search to begin at an arbitrary table, first cell is perfectly ok for me.
--- Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are using a macro to search, you can indicate > where a search will > begin. For example, you can specify that the search > should start at the > first position of the text object in the first cell > of a table. Or, you > could start searching from the last point before the > text table begins. > > You can then check the end position to see if it is > after the text table > of interest. There are, of course, certain > difficulties when comparing > ranges that are NOT in the same text object, but > that is related to the > details of solving the problem, rather than > answering your high-level > question. > > Kent Gibson wrote: > > >Thanks for the suggestion. Something like that > might > >work. Perhaps I should explain the problem a bit > more. > >I am having some quirky problems inserting images > into > >tables. So I thought I would render my table and > >instead of inserting images, I would insert some > text > >(ie a url) then when I finished the table I would > >replace the text with an image (with a macro). The > >idea works great. But search only seems to work at > the > >document level. The idea won't work at the very end > of > >rendering, becuase I need to render the table > (which > >is in a frame) and then replace the images and then > >check to see how big my frame is, because these > frames > >will be chained. > > > >I could render a table, do my search and throw out > >previosly "found" tables (this may be > computationally > >very expensive at the end of a large document). Or > >render my table, and do a forward search. But I am > not > >sure if either of these will work. > > > > > >--- Peter Eberlein > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hi Kent, > >> > >>Kent Gibson schrieb: > >> > >> > >>>Is there any way to do a search using XSearchable > >>> > >>> > >>in > >> > >> > >>>writer and set the scope to something other than > >>> > >>> > >>the > >> > >> > >>>document, for example a table or a cell range? > >>> > >>>I am pretty sure it works in calc with cell > >>> > >>> > >>ranges, > >> > >> > >>>but I can't get it work in the writer for > anything > >>> > >>> > >>but > >> > >> > >>>a document. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>why not checking the found-objects (which are > >>XTextRanges), if they > >>support one of the XTextTable-Services? > >> > >>Peter > >> > >> > >> > >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: > http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > My Book: > http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > See Also: > http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]