[mac] Python (PyUNO) component and OpenOffice.org extension

[Clytie Siddall]

Hi everyone :)








Jean-Christophe says:

Unfortunately, I have been away for a while, and haven't caught up yet with my mailing lists. So sorry if I'm asking something obvious. (I am SO glad to be back! :D ) HanoiLUG stalwart Jean-Christophe André has written an OpenOffice.org extension [1] to convert pre-Unicode Vietnamese files to Unicode. This is a key factor in takeup of our localized OpenOffice.org in Vietnam. This extension has been tested on Linux (Ubuntu) and WinXP, and works fine on those systems. I was asked to test it on OSX, and can't even load the dratted thing. After downloading it, I hit "Add", accept the licence, then choose to add it for either this user or all users (the result is the same either way), and it starts to load the extension, then pops up an error dialogue. [2]

I had the same problem when trying to run it in Windows.
This was because the default OpenOffice installation doesn't activate
the PyUNO component.
It's bundled in the OpenOffice installation but simply not activated.

Try to run the installation program again (or go in the OOo Setup
somewhere, I don't know the way it's integrated in MacOS) and look for
the optional components. You may find that PyUNO (or any other name
related to UNO or Python) are not activated.

If it's only that, that's cool because it should then work straight away. :)

(I also just bought an iPhone [3] and am having great fun with it. :D)

Thankyou for any help you can offer with this. :)

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n

[1] http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ovniconv

[2] 
http://www.riverland.net.au/~clytie/OpenOffice/anhchup/Mac_OSX/oviconv_load.png

I have absolutely no idea where to look for PyUNO support in OpenOffice.org on Mac OSX. I don't recall installing such a module manually, as I have some Python modules. Is it something we should already have, either in OSX or inside our OpenOffice.org builds? I am still running DEV300_m21, due to my absence, but will try to download a current build tonight. I don't know if that will help, or not. I'm using 10.5.4, all updates current, on a MacBook (Intel). [3] an iPhone 3G (16GB), for those familiar with Australian data networks

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