[api-dev] UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for the blind)

[Gareth Collins]

Hi,

 

I work for Dolphin Computer Access, a company that makes screen readers to
enable blind computer users to access Windows-based PCs. 

 

Our screen reader, Supernova, has a scripting engine based on the Lua
programming language to enable us to customize our screen reader to work
with a wide variety of Windows-based applications.

 

Therefore I'm wondering if the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit comes
with any Windows DLLs that will provide our scripting engine with an
interface/bridge to Open Office's UNO Accessibility API? (As our scripting
engine can call and retrieve the results from any function in any
third-party Windows DLL).

 

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Gareth Collins
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Re: [api-dev] UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for the blind)

[Malte Timmermann]

Hi Gareth,

there are different language bindings available: C++, Java, C#, OLE
Automation.

I guess/hope one of these can be used from your scripting language?

Malte.

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Gareth Collins wrote, On 11/30/10 17:40:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I work for Dolphin Computer Access, a company that makes screen readers
> to enable blind computer users to access Windows-based PCs.
> 
>  
> 
> Our screen reader, Supernova, has a scripting engine based on the Lua
> programming language to enable us to customize our screen reader to work
> with a wide variety of Windows-based applications.
> 
>  
> 
> Therefore I’m wondering if the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit
> comes with any Windows DLLs that will provide our scripting engine with
> an interface/bridge to Open Office’s UNO Accessibility API? (As our
> scripting engine can call and retrieve the results from any function in
> any third-party Windows DLL).
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> *Gareth Collins*
> *Product Support Group*
> 
> Dolphin logo
> *Dolphin Computer Access Inc.,*
> 231 Clarksville Road,
> Suite 3,
> Princeton Junction
> NJ 08850
> 
> *Phone:* 888 519 4694
> *Fax: *609 799 0475
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> *Email:* gareth.coll...@dolphinusa.com
> 
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Re: [api-dev] UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for the blind)

[Alexandro Colorado]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:40:02 -0600, Gareth Collins  
 wrote:



Hi,


I work for Dolphin Computer Access, a company that makes screen readers  
to

enable blind computer users to access Windows-based PCs.


Our screen reader, Supernova, has a scripting engine based on the Lua
programming language to enable us to customize our screen reader to work
with a wide variety of Windows-based applications.


Therefore I'm wondering if the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit  
comes

with any Windows DLLs that will provide our scripting engine with an
interface/bridge to Open Office's UNO Accessibility API? (As our  
scripting

engine can call and retrieve the results from any function in any
third-party Windows DLL).


You can use many languages to interoperate with OOo through COM service.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=9815



Thanks.

Kind regards,

Gareth Collins
Product Support Group

Dolphin logo
Dolphin Computer Access Inc.,
231 Clarksville Road,
Suite 3,
Princeton Junction
NJ 08850

Phone: 888 519 4694
Fax: 609 799 0475
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Re: [api-dev] UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for the blind)

[Alexandro Colorado]

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:40:02 -0600, Gareth Collins  
 wrote:



Hi,


I work for Dolphin Computer Access, a company that makes screen readers  
to

enable blind computer users to access Windows-based PCs.


Our screen reader, Supernova, has a scripting engine based on the Lua
programming language to enable us to customize our screen reader to work
with a wide variety of Windows-based applications.


Therefore I'm wondering if the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit  
comes

with any Windows DLLs that will provide our scripting engine with an
interface/bridge to Open Office's UNO Accessibility API? (As our  
scripting

engine can call and retrieve the results from any function in any
third-party Windows DLL).



You can use many languages to interoperate with OOo through COM service.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=9815




Thanks.

Kind regards,

Gareth Collins
Product Support Group

Dolphin logo
Dolphin Computer Access Inc.,
231 Clarksville Road,
Suite 3,
Princeton Junction
NJ 08850

Phone: 888 519 4694
Fax: 609 799 0475
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[api-dev] Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Johnny Rosenberg]

If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
that we will fill an array with all the file names.

I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
understand… I'll continue searching, though.

All kinds of hints are appreciated…


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg

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[api-dev] Re: Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2010/12/1 Johnny Rosenberg :
> If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
> easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
> that we will fill an array with all the file names.
>
> I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
> understand… I'll continue searching, though.

He he he… I tried again to search for the answer and this time I found
it almost immediately… At least I think I did:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide/Files_and_Directories_(Runtime_Library)

Seems to be what I am looking for.

Other thoughts about this are still welcome, though.

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Re: [api-dev] Re: Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Clayton]

On 12/01/2010 02:38 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

2010/12/1 Johnny Rosenberg:

If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
that we will fill an array with all the file names.

I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
understand… I'll continue searching, though.


He he he… I tried again to search for the answer and this time I found
it almost immediately… At least I think I did:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide/Files_and_Directories_(Runtime_Library)

Seems to be what I am looking for.

Other thoughts about this are still welcome, though.


I'm interested in how useful you find the Basic Guide Wiki page you dug 
up.  Is it missing info?  Anything unclear etc?  What can be or needs to 
be improved?


C.
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Re: [api-dev] Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Fernand Vanrie]

 Johnny ,

have a look in the Gimicks library of the OO-basic-macro's, maybe a bit 
complicated but you will find what you are looking for.


Hope it helps

Fernand

If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
that we will fill an array with all the file names.

I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
understand… I'll continue searching, though.

All kinds of hints are appreciated…


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg

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Re: [api-dev] Re: Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Ariel Constenla-Haile]

Hello Johnny,

On Wednesday 01 December 2010, 10:38, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2010/12/1 Johnny Rosenberg :
> > If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
> > easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
> > that we will fill an array with all the file names.
> > 
> > I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
> > understand… I'll continue searching, though.
> 
> He he he… I tried again to search for the answer and this time I found
> it almost immediately… At least I think I did:
> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide/Files_an
> d_Directories_(Runtime_Library)
> 
> Seems to be what I am looking for.
> 
> Other thoughts about this are still welcome, though.

I'd prefer using OOo API (not simply OOo Basic). This way you can then port 
your code to any supported language.
Try the following:

REM  *  BASIC  *
Option Explicit

Sub Main
Dim oSFA as Object
oSFA = CreateUnoService( "com.sun.star.ucb.SimpleFileAccess" )

Dim sURL$
sURL = getHomeDir()

If NOT oSFA.exists( sURL) OR NOT oSFA.isFolder( sURL ) Then
'some message
Exit Sub
End If

Dim sHomeDirFileContents$()
Dim sHomeDirFolderContents$()

sHomeDirFileContents = oSFA.getFolderContents( sURL, false )
sHomeDirFolderContents = oSFA.getFolderContents( sURL, true )

Dim oDoc as Object
oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(_
"private:factory/swriter", _
"_default", _
com.sun.star.frame.FrameSearchFlag.ALL, _
Array())

Dim oCursor as Object
oCursor = 
oDoc.getText().createTextCursorByRange(oDoc.getText().getStart())

InsertContents( oCursor, sHomeDirFileContents, "Only files" )
InsertContents( oCursor, sHomeDirFolderContents, "Files and folders" )
End Sub

Sub InsertContents( oCursor as Object, sContents(), sHeading$ )
oCursor.ParaStyleName = "Heading 1"
oCursor.getText().insertString( oCursor, sHeading, false )
oCursor.getText().insertControlCharacter( oCursor, _
com.sun.star.text.ControlCharacter.PARAGRAPH_BREAK, 
false )
oCursor.ParaStyleName = "Default"
Dim n%
For n = 0 To UBound(sContents)
oCursor.getText().insertString( oCursor, sContents(n), false )
oCursor.getText().insertControlCharacter( oCursor, _
com.sun.star.text.ControlCharacter.PARAGRAPH_BREAK, 
false )
Next
End Sub

Function getHomeDir() as String
Dim oPaths
oPaths = CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.util.PathSubstitution")
getHomeDir() = oPaths.getSubstituteVariableValue("$(home)")
End Function


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RE: [api-dev] UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for the blind)

[Gareth Collins]

Hi Malte,

Thanks for your e-mail.

OLE Automation would be perfect for our scripting language (which includes
the LuaCOM library). 

So are you saying that via OLE Automation I can for instance access the UNO
Accessibility API's XAccessibleTextAttributes interface to allow the screen
reader to speak the default paragraph and character attributes of a section
of text, or access the XAccessibleTable interface's getAccessibleRowCount or
getAccessibleCellAt methods to allow the screen reader to speak formatting
information about tables in a Writer document?

Kind regards,
Gareth Collins
Product Support Group

Dolphin Computer Access Inc.,
231 Clarksville Road,
Suite 3,
Princeton Junction
NJ 08850
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From: Malte Timmermann [mailto:malte.timmerm...@oracle.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:01 AM
To: dev@api.openoffice.org; Gareth Collins
Subject: Re: [api-dev] UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for
the blind)

Hi Gareth,

there are different language bindings available: C++, Java, C#, OLE
Automation.

I guess/hope one of these can be used from your scripting language?

Malte.

PS: Please subscribe to the list, as a reply normally only goes to the list.

Gareth Collins wrote, On 11/30/10 17:40:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I work for Dolphin Computer Access, a company that makes screen 
> readers to enable blind computer users to access Windows-based PCs.
> 
>  
> 
> Our screen reader, Supernova, has a scripting engine based on the Lua 
> programming language to enable us to customize our screen reader to 
> work with a wide variety of Windows-based applications.
> 
>  
> 
> Therefore I’m wondering if the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit 
> comes with any Windows DLLs that will provide our scripting engine 
> with an interface/bridge to Open Office’s UNO Accessibility API? (As 
> our scripting engine can call and retrieve the results from any 
> function in any third-party Windows DLL).
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> *Gareth Collins*
> *Product Support Group*
> 
> Dolphin logo
> *Dolphin Computer Access Inc.,*
> 231 Clarksville Road,
> Suite 3,
> Princeton Junction
> NJ 08850
> 
> *Phone:* 888 519 4694
> *Fax: *609 799 0475
> *Web:* www.YourDolphin.com 
> *Email:* gareth.coll...@dolphinusa.com 
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Re: [api-dev] Re: Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-12-01 14:53:01 skrev Clayton :


On 12/01/2010 02:38 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

2010/12/1 Johnny Rosenberg:

If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
that we will fill an array with all the file names.

I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
understand… I'll continue searching, though.


He he he… I tried again to search for the answer and this time I found
it almost immediately… At least I think I did:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide/Files_and_Directories_(Runtime_Library)

Seems to be what I am looking for.

Other thoughts about this are still welcome, though.


I'm interested in how useful you find the Basic Guide Wiki page you dug  
up.  Is it missing info?  Anything unclear etc?  What can be or needs to  
be improved?


C.


Well, I tried to follow the first example that stores file names, found in  
a directory, to a variable, but it didn't work. The Dir thing didn't find  
anything, even though I know there are 52 jpg files in there. I even  
copied the path name from my file manager. I'm not yet sure why this  
didn't work, but I have had some thoughts about it:


Maybe I can't use spaces in path names? That's too bad, because I do that  
all the time.
Maybe I entered the path name wrong. The example search "C:\" which isn't  
relevant to me, since C: is very Windows/DOS specific; I'm on Ubuntu 10.10  
and my path looks something like "/home/username/some folder/another  
folder/yet another folder/".

Maybe my path name is just too long?

Any hints?

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[api-dev] Open a file with standard application from dialog

[Volker Lenhardt]

I have a file picker as a dialog control. The file name is to be used as 
part of a URL text field in Calc.


I'd like to have a quick look at the file content from within the dialog 
(some command button) to avoid mistakes. But the file can be of any sort 
(graphic, text, pdf, OpenDocument ...).


How can I open it with the graphical systems' standard application. I 
couldn't find a solution. It should work for Linux (openSUSE 11.3, KDE 
4.4.4) and if possible for Windows (XP or Vista), too.


I think it must be via some shell command as I find with my 
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 (original version) that any links in OOo other than 
to OOo files are opened with the standard _browser_ (bug?).


Or is it a KDE (Windows ...) question?

Regards
Volker


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Re: [api-dev] Re: Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Fernand Vanrie]

Johnny ,

ConvertToURL all path's ?



Den 2010-12-01 14:53:01 skrev Clayton :


On 12/01/2010 02:38 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

2010/12/1 Johnny Rosenberg:

If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
that we will fill an array with all the file names.

I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
understand… I'll continue searching, though.


He he he… I tried again to search for the answer and this time I found
it almost immediately… At least I think I did:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide/Files_and_Directories_(Runtime_Library) 



Seems to be what I am looking for.

Other thoughts about this are still welcome, though.


I'm interested in how useful you find the Basic Guide Wiki page you 
dug up.  Is it missing info?  Anything unclear etc?  What can be or 
needs to be improved?


C.


Well, I tried to follow the first example that stores file names, 
found in a directory, to a variable, but it didn't work. The Dir thing 
didn't find anything, even though I know there are 52 jpg files in 
there. I even copied the path name from my file manager. I'm not yet 
sure why this didn't work, but I have had some thoughts about it:


Maybe I can't use spaces in path names? That's too bad, because I do 
that all the time.
Maybe I entered the path name wrong. The example search "C:\" which 
isn't relevant to me, since C: is very Windows/DOS specific; I'm on 
Ubuntu 10.10 and my path looks something like "/home/username/some 
folder/another folder/yet another folder/".

Maybe my path name is just too long?

Any hints?




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Re: [api-dev] Examining a directory with OpenOffice.org Basic

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak]

There should be an example in this:

http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt

http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.pdf



On 12/01/2010 08:31 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

If I know the name of a directory, let's say ~/MyImages, how can I
easily read the names of all the files in that directory? Let's say
that we will fill an array with all the file names.

I have searched a bit online, but so far I didn't find anything that I
understand… I'll continue searching, though.

All kinds of hints are appreciated…


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg

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My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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