Re: [api-dev] Searching Tables or Cell Ranges in the Writer
Well, consider this macro which sets all instances starting from the first table to bold. I did not attempt to see if the cursor had left the table for this macro. Sub SearchTable Dim oDescriptor, oFound Dim oTable Dim oCell REM Get the FIRST text table oTable = ThisComponent.getTextTables().getByIndex(0) oCell = oTable.getCellByName(A1) 'Inspect(oTable) 'Exit Sub oDescriptor = ThisComponent.createSearchDescriptor() With oDescriptor .SearchString = one .SearchWords = False .SearchCaseSensitive = False End With REM oFound = ThisComponent.findFirst(oDescriptor) oFound = ThisComponent.findNext( oCell.getText().getStart(), oDescriptor) Do While Not IsNull(oFound) oFound.CharWeight = com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight.BOLD oFound = ThisComponent.findNext( oFound.End, oDescriptor) Loop End Sub I will create a new section in my macro document and demonstrate a complete working example that searches ONLY the first text table. This will be titled Search only the first text table. I will finish this and post it before I go to sleep tonight. Kent Gibson wrote: odd, I tried everything I could to tell the search where to begin. I am happy to use macros to get this working. Do you have an example? I want to tell the search to begin at an arbitrary table, first cell is perfectly ok for me. --- Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using a macro to search, you can indicate where a search will begin. For example, you can specify that the search should start at the first position of the text object in the first cell of a table. Or, you could start searching from the last point before the text table begins. You can then check the end position to see if it is after the text table of interest. There are, of course, certain difficulties when comparing ranges that are NOT in the same text object, but that is related to the details of solving the problem, rather than answering your high-level question. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Searching Tables or Cell Ranges in the Writer
If you are using a macro to search, you can indicate where a search will begin. For example, you can specify that the search should start at the first position of the text object in the first cell of a table. Or, you could start searching from the last point before the text table begins. You can then check the end position to see if it is after the text table of interest. There are, of course, certain difficulties when comparing ranges that are NOT in the same text object, but that is related to the details of solving the problem, rather than answering your high-level question. Kent Gibson wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Something like that might work. Perhaps I should explain the problem a bit more. I am having some quirky problems inserting images into tables. So I thought I would render my table and instead of inserting images, I would insert some text (ie a url) then when I finished the table I would replace the text with an image (with a macro). The idea works great. But search only seems to work at the document level. The idea won't work at the very end of rendering, becuase I need to render the table (which is in a frame) and then replace the images and then check to see how big my frame is, because these frames will be chained. I could render a table, do my search and throw out previosly found tables (this may be computationally very expensive at the end of a large document). Or render my table, and do a forward search. But I am not sure if either of these will work. --- Peter Eberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kent, Kent Gibson schrieb: Is there any way to do a search using XSearchable in writer and set the scope to something other than the document, for example a table or a cell range? I am pretty sure it works in calc with cell ranges, but I can't get it work in the writer for anything but a document. why not checking the found-objects (which are XTextRanges), if they support one of the XTextTable-Services? Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Searching Tables or Cell Ranges in the Writer
Hi Kent, Kent Gibson schrieb: Is there any way to do a search using XSearchable in writer and set the scope to something other than the document, for example a table or a cell range? I am pretty sure it works in calc with cell ranges, but I can't get it work in the writer for anything but a document. why not checking the found-objects (which are XTextRanges), if they support one of the XTextTable-Services? Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Searching Tables or Cell Ranges in the Writer
Thanks for the suggestion. Something like that might work. Perhaps I should explain the problem a bit more. I am having some quirky problems inserting images into tables. So I thought I would render my table and instead of inserting images, I would insert some text (ie a url) then when I finished the table I would replace the text with an image (with a macro). The idea works great. But search only seems to work at the document level. The idea won't work at the very end of rendering, becuase I need to render the table (which is in a frame) and then replace the images and then check to see how big my frame is, because these frames will be chained. I could render a table, do my search and throw out previosly found tables (this may be computationally very expensive at the end of a large document). Or render my table, and do a forward search. But I am not sure if either of these will work. --- Peter Eberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kent, Kent Gibson schrieb: Is there any way to do a search using XSearchable in writer and set the scope to something other than the document, for example a table or a cell range? I am pretty sure it works in calc with cell ranges, but I can't get it work in the writer for anything but a document. why not checking the found-objects (which are XTextRanges), if they support one of the XTextTable-Services? Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
