Jimmy wrote: > I'm developping a component for Writer which has been tested with > Windows and works fine on different machines with different OpenOffice > Versions starting from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4. > > Now that I'm almost finished with it, I wanted to test the tool on a Mac > and on Linux. Surprisingly it failed and I don't really understand how > this could happen. > > On Linux (Gentoo) with OO.org 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 it fails and on Mac > (Intel/PowerPC) it fails with NeoOffice (OO.org 2.0.3). The main problem > which I figured out is on startup where the JobExecutor initializes > several things. > > The following code works with Windows but not with the other ones: > xComponent = xDesktop.getCurrentComponent(); > > xDesktop has been initialized but getCurrentComponent() doesn't give > anything back, it does so with Windows! (How is this even possible?)
getCurrentComponent() is not reliable as it depends on the focus/activation handling on the particular OS. Unix systems are well known to handle focus changes asynchronously so you have a good chance that directly after starting the first window of OOo getCurrentComponent() will be empty. If you want to work reliably use APIs that return you the objects that you need. In your code: > xController = xModel.getCurrentController(); This if fine, you have all you need: the model and the controller of the document you want to work on. > xComponent = xDesktop.getCurrentComponent(); Why do you need this at all? Even on Windows it won't give you anything you don't have already. Or did I misunderstood your code? Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
