Could someone at least verify if they're having the same trouble with this in 2.x or 2.3?
Thanks! Hal On Sunday 13 July 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I originally posted this to the General group a day ago, but the more > I think about it, the more I think people here would be more likely > to know how to deal with it. Like the one outstanding issue I'm > having with the dialog in Basic (the file browser won't browse), it > looks like this should just work, but it doesn't. > > I'm using OOo 2.3 on Ubuntu Linux. > > I have macros that change the paragraph margin indents and want them > to be called from specific autotext events, but it's not working. > I've defined the macros and the autotext items. I do this: > > - Edit->AutoText > - Pick the AutoText item I want to call a macro > - Select from the button to the right AutoText->Macro > - The Assign Macro window opens up. > - I click on the Macros window and navigate to get to the macro I > want (My Macros.Screenwriting.Film.Margin1) > - I click Assign to assign this macro to the AutoText before > inserting text. > - The object path > (vnd.sun.star.script:Screenwriting.Film.Margin1?language=Basic&locati >on=application(.) appears in the table showing that it is assigned to > "Before inserting AutoText." > - Click OK to close that window > > Then, from the AutoText window I click on the AutoText item again and > go to the Macro window to see if it's assigned and it isn't. Even if > I don't do this and just close the AutoText window, it's still not > assigned. > > I can assign the macro to an AutoText, but I can't make it stick. > > I thought maybe some of the AutoText info was being stored elsewhere > than in my home directory so I might not have write permission to the > folder, but if that were true, I could not save the AutoText in the > first place. > > So even though I'm doing what seems like the right thing, why can't I > assign a macro to an autotext? > > > Thanks for any help on this. > > > Hal > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
