On 08.03.2010 13:55, Carsten Driesner wrote: > Rony G. Flatscher wrote: >> Hi Ariel, >> >> On 04.03.2010 02:38, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 03 March 2010, 14:16, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> You could file a RFE to enhance the com.sun.star.awt.XTopWindow >>>>> (haha now >>>>> I see someone [fs in dba33a?] added a com.sun.star.awt.XTopWindow2). >>>>> >>>> But that one seems not to be available (it cannot be interrogated via >>>> reflection). >>>> >>> I founded it in a Dev. snapshot >>> cf. >>> http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/xref/DEV300_m73/offapi/com/sun/star/awt/XTopWindow2.idl >>> >>> you can get the Dev. version of OOo and its respective SDK from any >>> mirror, for example >>> ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/OpenOffice/extended/developer/DEV300_m73 >>> >>> Anyway this new interface does not help you with this current problem. >>> >> somehow the people in the know from Sun/Oracle seem to have been busy >> these days as astonishingly no one has followed up. >> >> Hoping the best, waiting till next week for additional feedback/infos. >> > Hi Ron, > > The UNO AWT toolkit is a small wrapper on top of VCL. The vcl methods > provide the output (client) area to the caller and therefore you see > that in UNO AWT toolkit, too. You are right that this is not always > the needed information. As there is currently no other way than the > workaround from Ariel you have to write a request for enhancement. > XTopWindow2 would be a good place to provide this kind of information. > UNO AWT is known to have many missing functions but available > developers are rare. Help is always appreciated. Short of students who are acquainted with C++ there is unfortunately no resource around here to help out in this corner. :( Wherever otherwise help is possible it is being attempted (like a student taking on IDL-text <-> registry, IDL-text <-> some sort of XML-encoded IDL where ideas and suggestions are of course welcome).
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