Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Felix E. Klee wrote: Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 13:16 schrieb Carsten Driesner: you have to do the following: Thanks for the quick reply. I do have a couple of questions left: 1. What do you mean by ""? Is it the system wide installation (e.g. "/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/") or is it the installation of an individual user (e.g. /home/empf/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/)? Office installation means the installation of the Office binaries. You describe it as system wide installation. 2. Where do I put the file containing the new menu, and what format is it supposed to have? You have to use adapted XML files. For example: - Open the writermenubar.xml - Add your menu - Copy it to the new location. 3. How do I control the position of the new menu on the menu bar? You have to change the complete menu bar. As Mathias already stated this solution is not exactly what you want ( you only want to add a menu to the menu bar). But you get an additional feature, which you cannot use with add-ons. If you want to add your menu to a specific point into the menu bar, you are lost with add-ons (this will be a feature for the next major version). You can only add a top-level menu or a sub-menu to the "Tools - Add-ons" popup menu. Regards, Carsten - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Felix E. Klee wrote: > Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 23:52 schrieb Mathias Bauer: >> My suggestion is to add your menu as an OOo Add-On. This is a package >> usually containing code and some configuration files that define an >> additional top level menu or toolbar for the component. Of course you >> can omit the code and provide the configuration files only. The drawback >> is that the additional menu is always placed between "Tools" and >> "Window", but its biggest advantage is that it's very simple. > > I assume that I cannot install such a menu system wide. So, can I install it > for every user without having to go through a graphical installer each time? > I.e. is installation scriptable? You can install your menu per system (needs admin rights of course) or per user (without admin rights), just like you want. The installation uses the command line interface of unopkg.exe that resides in the "program" directory of OOo. If you want to know how such an Add-On menu is configured, please have a look into the chapter about Add-Ons in the Developers Guide. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 23:52 schrieb Mathias Bauer: > My suggestion is to add your menu as an OOo Add-On. This is a package > usually containing code and some configuration files that define an > additional top level menu or toolbar for the component. Of course you > can omit the code and provide the configuration files only. The drawback > is that the additional menu is always placed between "Tools" and > "Window", but its biggest advantage is that it's very simple. I assume that I cannot install such a menu system wide. So, can I install it for every user without having to go through a graphical installer each time? I.e. is installation scriptable? -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Tel: +49 721 8307937, Fax: +49 721 8307936 Linuxburg, Goethestr. 15A, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Carsten Driesner wrote: > Hi Felix, > > you have to do the following: > > 1. Create a folder in /share/config/soffice.cfg > 2. Copy your XML files (f.e. writermenubar.xml) to the folder. > 3. Add the following XML snippet to installation>/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xcu > ... > > > > $(insturl)/share/config > > > > ... > > > Now you should see that the new configuration data is used for the user > interface elements. If it doesn't work, please check that there are no > file in the user layer (/user/config/soffice.cfg). > These file have a higher priority. I don't think that this is what Felix wants to do, as he wrote: >> BTW, I only want to add *one* menu. I do not want to replace the entire >> menu >> bar since individual users may have made changes to the menu bar. IMHO providing this additional menu as an Addons.xcu in a UNO package without code is easier. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Felix E. Klee wrote: > Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 17:22 schrieb Mathias Bauer: >> >> BTW, I only want to add *one* menu. I do not want to replace the entire >> >> menu bar since individual users may have made changes to the menu bar. >> > >> > BTW, what about creating the menu dynamically each time OO is started? >> > AFAICS, this would be a very nice solution since the menu could be >> > modified using settings stored in a configuration file for each user. >> >> I wouldn't do that. OOo's startup performance is bad enough. :-) > > Our customer's PCs that are running OO should be fast enough for building a > menu on startup. The only thing that's preventing me from implementing this > solution is that by setting > > Tools -> Configure -> Events -> Start Application > > one can only define *one* startup event. AFAICS, this could lead to a > serious > conflict in case another extension wants to also define a startup event. Is > this assumption correct? Are there ways to specify multiple events processed > on startup (aside from assigning a subroutine/function which calls other > subroutines/functions)? Yes, this conflict is possible. My suggestion is to add your menu as an OOo Add-On. This is a package usually containing code and some configuration files that define an additional top level menu or toolbar for the component. Of course you can omit the code and provide the configuration files only. The drawback is that the additional menu is always placed between "Tools" and "Window", but its biggest advantage is that it's very simple. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 17:22 schrieb Mathias Bauer: > >> BTW, I only want to add *one* menu. I do not want to replace the entire > >> menu bar since individual users may have made changes to the menu bar. > > > > BTW, what about creating the menu dynamically each time OO is started? > > AFAICS, this would be a very nice solution since the menu could be > > modified using settings stored in a configuration file for each user. > > I wouldn't do that. OOo's startup performance is bad enough. :-) Our customer's PCs that are running OO should be fast enough for building a menu on startup. The only thing that's preventing me from implementing this solution is that by setting Tools -> Configure -> Events -> Start Application one can only define *one* startup event. AFAICS, this could lead to a serious conflict in case another extension wants to also define a startup event. Is this assumption correct? Are there ways to specify multiple events processed on startup (aside from assigning a subroutine/function which calls other subroutines/functions)? -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Tel: +49 721 8307937, Fax: +49 721 8307936 Linuxburg, Goethestr. 15A, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 13:16 schrieb Carsten Driesner: > you have to do the following: Thanks for the quick reply. I do have a couple of questions left: 1. What do you mean by ""? Is it the system wide installation (e.g. "/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/") or is it the installation of an individual user (e.g. /home/empf/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/)? 2. Where do I put the file containing the new menu, and what format is it supposed to have? 3. How do I control the position of the new menu on the menu bar? -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Tel: +49 721 8307937, Fax: +49 721 8307936 Linuxburg, Goethestr. 15A, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Hi Felix, you have to do the following: 1. Create a folder in /share/config/soffice.cfg 2. Copy your XML files (f.e. writermenubar.xml) to the folder. 3. Add the following XML snippet to installation>/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xcu ... $(insturl)/share/config ... Now you should see that the new configuration data is used for the user interface elements. If it doesn't work, please check that there are no file in the user layer (/user/config/soffice.cfg). These file have a higher priority. Regards, Carsten - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Felix E. Klee wrote: > Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 16:09 schrieb Felix E. Klee: >> BTW, I only want to add *one* menu. I do not want to replace the entire >> menu bar since individual users may have made changes to the menu bar. > > BTW, what about creating the menu dynamically each time OO is started? > AFAICS, this would be a very nice solution since the menu could be modified > using settings stored in a configuration file for each user. I wouldn't do that. OOo's startup performance is bad enough. :-) Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Laurent Godard: > did you try to put it at share level ? > /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/share/config/soffice.cfg/writermenubar.xml I just tried adding a menu called "Something New", but it doesn't appear, probably because I used bad syntax or because I need to somehow tell OO that this particular file exists. Also, I added to ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/user/config/soffice.cfg/META-INF/manifest.xml but still no success. Some info about "writermenubar.xml" on my system: $ cd /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/share/config/soffice.cfg $ ls -l writermenubar.xml -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 548 Jan 27 15:59 writermenubar.xml $ cat writermenubar.xml http://openoffice.org/2001/menu"; menu:id="menubar"> BTW, I only want to add *one* menu. I do not want to replace the entire menu bar since individual users may have made changes to the menu bar. Any idea what's going wrong? -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Tel: +49 721 8307937, Fax: +49 721 8307936 Linuxburg, Goethestr. 15A, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 16:09 schrieb Felix E. Klee: > BTW, I only want to add *one* menu. I do not want to replace the entire > menu bar since individual users may have made changes to the menu bar. BTW, what about creating the menu dynamically each time OO is started? AFAICS, this would be a very nice solution since the menu could be modified using settings stored in a configuration file for each user. But where does one put code that is to be started on startup? I see that one can assign exactly *one* event to program start. Is that it? What if another "plugin" also wants to start a macro on program start? -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Tel: +49 721 8307937, Fax: +49 721 8307936 Linuxburg, Goethestr. 15A, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Felix, I've set up a custom menu for several users. Now, if I want to change that menu, e.g. by adding a new item, I have to do that for every of these users by modifying the following file: ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/user/config/soffice.cfg/writermenubar.xml This is quite tediuos and error prone. Is it possible to tell "writermenubar.xml" to read the definition of a particular menu from a system wide file? did you try to put it at share level ? /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/share/config/soffice.cfg/writermenubar.xml that should work and in a future version we will probably be able to provide a clean solution to deploy such configuration changes with a UNO package either per user or for all users of the same installation. Juergen Laurent - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Hi Felix, I've set up a custom menu for several users. Now, if I want to change that menu, e.g. by adding a new item, I have to do that for every of these users by modifying the following file: ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/user/config/soffice.cfg/writermenubar.xml This is quite tediuos and error prone. Is it possible to tell "writermenubar.xml" to read the definition of a particular menu from a system wide file? did you try to put it at share level ? /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/share/config/soffice.cfg/writermenubar.xml Laurent -- Laurent Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Ingénierie OpenOffice.org Indesko >> http://www.indesko.com Nuxeo CPS >> http://www.nuxeo.com - http://www.cps-project.org Livre "Programmation OpenOffice.org", Eyrolles 2004 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Managing a menu system wide
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 13:11 schrieb Felix E. Klee: > This is quite tediuos and error prone. Is it possible to tell > "writermenubar.xml" to read the definition of a particular menu from a > system wide file? Perhaps by somehow including a system wide file into ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/user/config/soffice.cfg/writermenubar.xml ? Is this possible? -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Tel: +49 721 8307937, Fax: +49 721 8307936 Linuxburg, Goethestr. 15A, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
