Re: [api-dev] Re: OpenNewView
Vincenzo Giuliano wrote: Abstract: Vincenzo Giuliano wrote: I am not able to open new view on calc document Whoever seeks will find. I writed this method which is fit for every OO Document and it opens always the view. what do you think of it? Can I improve it? The code does what the menu command Window-New Window does. That's OK. It's the best you can do for the time being. Besides that I think that OOo currently does not treat OpenNewView correctly, means: it looks like a bug. 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] Java: adding functionality to newly created menu item
Tobias Krais wrote: Hi all, after I created successfully a new menu and menu item I now want to add functionality to the menu item. The functionality should be implemented in Java. Can you tell me where to start to learn doing this, or tell me some package- / interfacenames that are involved in doing this? Menu commands are command strings that are handed over to the so called Dispatch Framework. You can place internal commands there and then some OOo code will be called or (if an interceptor is placed into OOo) also some external code. You can also place external commands there that can trigger code you provide in your component. To make OOo call such external code you have to use commands with your own naming scheme and implement and install a so called protocol handler that handles commands using the scheme. All this is described in the Developers Guide in the chapters about Dispatching and Add-Ons. 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] Re: Re: OpenNewView
Vincenzo Giuliano wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: I think that OOo currently does not treat OpenNewView correctly, means: it looks like a bug. Hi Mathias, from what I can see, I gather that the java method can be useful. I could publish it as snippet code, what do you think of it? Regards,Vincenzo. Yes, it can be useful until we get the bug fixed. 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] How to close the quickstarter
Didier Dorange-Pattoret wrote: Declare Function GetActiveWindow Lib quot;user32quot; () As Long Declare Sub ExitProcess Lib quot;kernel32quot; (ByVal uExitCode As Long) Sub Essai rem getting the active windowapos;s handle. hWnd = GetActiveWindow() rem closing all active windows On error resume Next myEnum = StarDesktop.Components.CreateEnumeration Do while myEnum.HasmoreElements oDoc = myEnum.NextElement If HasUnoInterfaces(oDoc, quot;[EMAIL PROTECTED] com.sun.star.util.XCloseable}quot;) Then oDoc.close(true) Else oDoc.dispose() End If Loop On error goto 0 rem closing the quickstarter ExitProcess(hWnd) End Sub Just to avoid confusion: of course this does not just close the quickstarter, it shuts down the whole OOo process. That the QS is also closed is more a collateral damage. :-) As a side effect remote bridges or OLE connections that might be there will be broken. So you should better declare this snippet as something that terminates the OOo process even if the QS is running. This will set expectations right. I think we should finally provide an API to close the QS to avoid such desperate attempts. :-) 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] How to set print to file
Alexandro Colorado wrote: I got a macro which prints a document: dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, .uno:PrintDefault, , 0, Array()) However I was unable to find an interface for printing to a document, doing some research on the reference I found the FileName which is used in case of printing to a file but I couldnt find any other option to set it as a PrinttoFile. The models of all OOo documents support com.sun.star.view.XPrintable. There you find a method print that allows to add parameters as PrintOptions. In Basic you can write dim args(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue args(0).Name = FileName args(0).Value = sFileName ThisComponent.print(args()) Please note that sFileName must be a system file name, not a URL, because it will be handed over to the printing API of the OS. 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] Java: adding functionality to newly created menu item
Tobias Krais wrote: You explanation helps me. I will patch the ProtocolHandler config. There is no reason to patch any config file. You should provide your own protocolhandler.xcu in a UNO package and OOo will automatically merge your file into the built in one (but only in memory, not on disk). 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] Chaining Frames : ChainedTextFrame
Kent Gibson wrote: The Developer's Guide says that Chaining Frames is not possible (yet). I had a go anyway hoping it was out of date. No luck. So is this correct? Chaning is not Supported? First: please start a new thread when you write a mail about a new topic, use the reply button only if you really reply to a mail. This will perhaps also increase the possible number of answers. What frames are you talking about (text frames?) and what do you mean with chaining? 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] Impossible to close a Base document
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: That's why it's hard to tell who has the ownership of the document. If it were the frame (opened by the user), and the frame would close it, then the script would break. If it were the script, and the script would close the doc, then the frame would silently be closed, too, even if the user doesn't want this. If a sript that closes the frame is executed by the user he surely wants this. :-) However, this interpretation might be too strict (and the scenario too esoteric). Should probably discuss this with the people who implemented the closing mechanism for the other document types, they must have had reasons to do it the way they did :) See my other answer. :-) Ciao, 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] Styles and Formatting Dialog
Tuomas Räsänen wrote: Hi, Can I somehow (programmatically) access Styles and Formatting - dialog and chage it's properties. My goal is to hide those default style categories and propably to chage the name of Custom Styles - category. I'd like to limit users to use only definite styles. No, the Styles and Formatting dialog doesn't have an API. 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] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!
Anders Johansen wrote:
The ONLY things that matter are, that
* I can get the entire text (for spell checking)
* I can convert a position in the entire text to a position in a part
of the editable text of an OO document (so I can replace a word
during spell check)
* I can get the current position (expressed as an int), and the
current text, and hence parse out the current partially written word
(if any)
* I can replace the current word with another one (word prediction)
For example in Word I do it by requesting all text (WholeStory I
think it's called), and then calculating the difference in one-letter-
movements to the current selection.
Assuming that the document consists of 3 chuncks of text, one could
do like this:
Context = text from part 1 + text from part 2 + text from part 3
if (cursor is in part 1) {
Position = position in part 1;
} else if (cursor is in part 2) {
Position = length of text in part 1 + position in part 2;
} else ...
This would leave the problem of handling highlights that span
boundaries of text blocks.
You see, from my point of view the ORDER of the text blocks does not
matter. I do not have to parse the text in the order it is written or
read, really, although it would be nice if the order was somewhat sane.
OK, so the tricky part will be to have a reliable algorithm that
serializes every possible arrangement of text on a single Writer page.
Or the whole text of a document? Should be doable but needs some
thinking. After this coding will not be the biggest problem. :-)
I forgot to mention: if you want to use char* to address strings there
is another problem because OOo strings are 16Bit UniCode strings, so a
suitable data type should be used. You could workaround this by
converting all strings received by our API to UTF-8 encoded strings in
the DLL with C-API but then you can't rely on the usual pointer
arithmetics.
Don't need pointer calcs. Just need to replace a chunk of text with
something else for spell checking or word prediction.
So you would be fine with getting the text as UTF-8 encoded byte strings?
Best regards,
Mathias
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Re: [api-dev] New component: instead of .uno:SaveAs .uno:SaveTo
Tobias Krais wrote: Hi again, I now had success with creating my first component. I can register it and use in in the menus. Thank you all! But now I want to write a second component: it should be the same as already exists: .uno:SaveAs. But the functionality should be different: it should store the object's persistent data to a URL and continues to be a representation of the old URL. It is the same difference as in XStorable.storeAsURL() and XStorable.storeToURL(). My question: is it the easiest way to develop a complete new component or can I reuse the main parts of .uno:SaveAs? You can reuse everything. You can dispatch the .uno:SaveAs command but with an additional argument, a boolean PropertyValue named SaveTo. The drawback of this approach is that you will only get the filters that are available in SaveAs, but not the ones you get in Export, e.g. PDF. 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] How to tell a component the current XComponent?
Tobias Krais wrote: Hi together, I created my first component and have now a big problem: -%- private XComponent openDocument = null; [...] // Querying for the interface XPrintable on the loaded document XPrintable xPrintable = (XPrintable) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPrintable.class, openDocument); -%- I want to print the current document, but I don't know how to tell the component the XComponent the user used when clicking on the item of the menu. Can anybody tell me how to do this? Or generally: how to give variables to components? By using their API. Sorry, this isn't a joke, it's just the truth. A more useful answer depends on the component you want to use. So what kind of component are you talking about? As an example, if your component is a job or a document event listener it gets a frame object on initialization or execution time (and the frame is able to tell the component the document it belongs to). The same is true for Dispatch objects since OOo2.0.x (x=2 IIRC). 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] DocumentConfiguration
Tuomas Räsänen wrote: Hi again, My goal is to prevent user from using default styles in textdocs. Apparently those default styles cannot be disabled, so I need to make everything manually. One thing I have to do is to remove accelerators modifying styles. (e.g. CTRL + 1 = Heading 1). I tried to remove that accelerator with the code below, but nothing happened. CTRL+1 was still working. What did I do wrong? Perhaps the short cut is hardcoded? Would be a bug IMHO. And is there easier way to achieve my goal? Can I include a configuration file in my template to setup accelerators for my document? ( just like menubar.xml ) And if, where should I put it? There is configuration file for global and module accelerators ($OFFICE_DIR/share/config/soffice.cfg/global/accelerator/en-US/default.xml and e.g. $OFFICE_DIR/share/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/accelerator/en-US/default.xml) for the whole OpenOffice but in template files there is only /configuration2/menubar/menubar.xml) You can attach keyboard configurations to documents or templates. If I'm not completely wrong this should be mentioned in Developers Guide. The easiest way is to use the Save Button in the configuration dialog and select your document or template as a target. 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] com.sun.star.mail
Peter Eberlein wrote: Hi, I would like to use the subject module for mailing, because com.sun.star.system.SimpleSystemMail has some restrictions (no access to body). I can connect to SMTP (thanks to ms777) with the following snippet, but found no way to instanciate a com.sun.star.mail.MailMessage (CreateUNOService(com.sun.star.mail.MailMessage) gives me a null-object). Any hints? IIRC there is no implementation for this service in OOo at all. OOo's strategy for mailing is to use the system mailer (via SimpleMail and SimpleSystemMail), OOo doesn't want to be a replacement for a mail program. With an own builtg in SMTP engine OOo would need to provide (and maintain) at least an outbox folder, that's nothing we want to do. 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] OOO 2.0.2: macro for bulk or single conversion of odt to pdf?
Francis Jones wrote: This looks like a bug on the Windows version: Input: C:\tmp\test\1234.odt Output from ConvertToURL(): file:///C:/tmp/test/1234.odt There are 3 fwd slashes before the drive specifier, but there should only be 2. No, 3 slashes are correct as Tom already pointed out in the mail you have replied to. 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] Calc: loading file with key-shortcuts .sxc v/.ods
Ennio-Sr wrote:
Hi all!
[OOo-2.0.2-6 on Gnu/Linux - i386]
I have two versions of the same Calc spreadsheet: file.sxc and file.ods.
A particular keyboard configuration for this file was saved in a file
named AAA-KbdCfg using the Organize Macros command ; then I saved an
OO-Basic macro to automatically load 'AAA-KbdCfg':
# rem ##
# sub kbd_cfg_macro
# rem --
# rem define variables
# dim documentnbsp;nbsp; as object
# dim dispatcher as object
# rem --
# rem get access to the document
# documentnbsp;nbsp; = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
# dispatcher = createUnoService(com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper)
# rem --
# dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, .uno:ConfigureDialog, , 0, Array())
# end sub
rem #
and included a call to this ('Kbd_cfg_macro') in another macro
started automatically when the file is opened.
Now, if I open file.sxc, the 'Kbd_Cfg_macro' starts regularly and
the Customize menu appears, where from I can hit 'Load' and choose the
'AAA-KbdCfg' file, whereas opening the .ods file nothing happens!
Did you check wether the ods file contains the event binding of your
macro? And are you sure that the bound macro is started when the
document is loaded?
Best regards,
Mathias
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Re: [api-dev] Calc: loading file with key-shortcuts .sxc v/.ods
Ennio-Sr wrote:
Hi Mathias,
The answer was 'yes' for both your questions. However, by now I've
re-obtained the same performance as I had under 1.1.4 after re-building
the file containing the keyboard configuration ('AAA-KbdCfg').
Nice to hear that it finally worked for you.
BTW: I don't know if this is possible for you, but if you want to use a
special keyboard configuration for certain documents it could be easier
to store this configuration directly into those documents or store it
into a template and create the documents from this template (documents
inherit their UI config from their template).
Best regards,
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Re: [api-dev] Calc: loading file with key-shortcuts .sxc v/.ods
Ennio-Sr wrote: Mathias, that is exactly what I thought I was doing: for each group of files sharing the same macro-shortkey associations I'm loading the file where the particular configuration was stored (calling the relative macro from within the main one associated with the 'open document' event and saved into the document itself) [1]; but may be I'm missing some better feature ? In this case, I should very much appreciate it if you would suggest any specific readings. My recommendation would be to use the template mechanism: create a document template that contains the configuration you want to have: create a new document, store the shortcut configuration into it and then save this document with File-Templates-Save. Then create all new documents that should use this shortcut configuration from this template using File-New-Templates and Documents. 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] custom menu to document in relation to cust.menu in Writer
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, Before adding some comment to #63445, I post this below, to see what others think. I created a custom menu, bounded to the document. There was already a Writer-bounded menu, And that also was linked to that new document It turned out that before saving the new menu in the document, first the other menu had to be removed in the Customize-dialog. This removing only applied for that specific document: the Writer-bounded menu was no longer present in that specific document. This can be desirable, when sending an document with menu to someone else However, the consequence is, that when a document document-bounded menu is loaded, an Writer-bounded menu, existing in OOo where the document+menu is made, is not available. This is something to keep in mind. Is this fully correct? Are others familiar with this behaviour? Yes, you can have only one menu configuration per module because every change immediately takes effect. So all of your changes are done on top of the current, global Writer menu configuration. I wouldn't complain if you called this a design bug. ;-) 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] Proposal: Easy to use complex toolbar controls for add-ons
Paolo Mantovani wrote: I must admit that I don't understand this problem. In the current addon's implementation, the toolbar-button calls the macro specified in the URL field, without to pass the frame reference. (at least AFAIK) From the side of the static code, you can use StarDesktop.currentComponent() to get the document that contains the toolbar from which the macro has been launched. At least, this is what I currently do in my starbasic addon's Yes, but there is no code in your Add-On that maintains the status of the buttons in the toolbar (it is currently impossible to write such code in basic because you have to provide an object to the dispatch framework). Carsten proposal enriches the communication of this object to the dispatch framework and so it is nothing that can be used from Basic. The interface between a basic code snippet and a toolbar button is only passive, means: the basic code is called from inside the toolbar button, but never the other way around because there is no object in the basic code that is bound to the controller. Any static approaches will fail because the whole communication between toolbar controls and the status event sources is dynamic by nature. *If* we think about a way to support status information via basic we should think about helper dispatch objects that can be parameterized from basic. The main problem will be how we can insert them into the dispatch chain. Perhaps we can use the macro dispatcher as a medium (the same object that executes the macro when the button is clicked). 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] creating non-modal dialog
Paolo Mantovani wrote: Hi Laurent, Alle 13:58, giovedì 20 aprile 2006, Laurent Godard ha scritto: Hi Paolo It sounds quite strange to me that a UNOControlDialog behaves as non-modal. a hack iirc is to set the visible property to true do not use execute but loop over a global boolean to detect a stop set do not forget a wait statement in the loop to allow other process to work :-) the global idea (tested a long time ago) [...] Feel free to ask, i may find some old code Np, your example is perfectly understandable It works! Cool!! I didn't know this trick! :-) It's not a trick - all vcl based dialogs can be executed either modal (using execute) or modeless (using setVisible(True)). But this alone is not enough, a dialog started with setVisible is still a modal one if you have a polling loop like in Laurents example, the only difference is that the modality is in the macro code and not in VCL (where BTW it takes *much* less CPU cycles to do nothing except waiting). There might be another unexpected side effect with the basic loop: the existence of such a loop (either in Basic or in VCL) makes it necessary to prevent the closing(/destruction of the dialog or its parent window before the loop ends (otherwise a crash will happen sooner or later). For this reason VCL disables the parent window of the dialog so that you can't close it while the excute() call is done. It's possible that in the example with the Basic loop where vcl doesn't know about this modality the parent window is not disabled and so you can shoot yourself in the foot by closing the parent window while the dialog is waiting for input. You can try it out, but please try the Basic IDE and a document window as a parent (by starting the macro from inside either one), they might behave differently here. A real modeless treatment that does not suffer from this pain needs that your macro terminates after the dialog is shown (no wait loop!) and sleeps until a callback from the dialog awakes it again (click handler). AFAIK this means that your dialog must be kept in a global variable so that termination of your macro does not kill the dialog automatically. 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] creating non-modal dialog
Tuomas Räsänen wrote: My goal is to create a non-modal dialog to replace default Styles and Formatting - dialog. MyDialog contains a listbox for styles just like the Style and Formatting - dialog. I would appreciate your opinion about the way I have done this dialog. There is also a problem: this dialog won't close when clicking that cross at top right corner of the dialog. What I've done wrong? I'm not a dialog API expert, but the following line of code looks strange to me: xPSetDialog.setPropertyValue(Closeable, new Boolean(false)); I understand this as a command that this dialog shouldn't be closeable and so it isn't surprising that nothing happens when you click on the closer. OTOH I wonder why there is a closer at all in this case but this might be a bug or imperfection. 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] UNO wrapper project
Alexandro Colorado wrote: A feature that might make IDE better is integrated to Xray or PyXray on a way that can autocomplete the methods however basic itself is limited within the UNO framework. This is an oversimplification and an overcomplication at the same time. :-) Wether you can have autocompletion or not is not a matter of the language or their binding to UNO or not, it's a matter of the type system. Autocompletion needs static typing, means: you must know the type of an object to be able to autocomplete written code to the methods of the object. So if you want autocompletion in a programming language you must integrate static typing into it. This is possible with *every* programming language, even with OpenOffice.org Basic. OTOH exactly Basic programmers don't like static typing (means: they don't like typing their variables at all ;-)), so you have to make a choice. As I already suggested in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: offering *optional* static typing would allow us to implementing autocompletion in the BasicIDE for all developers that take this option, means something like dim doc as com.sun.star.textTextDocument doc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFomURL(...) instead of dim doc doc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFomURL(...) would enable the IDE to autocomplete the code if the user starts to type doc. 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] Closing documents w/ simplest possible converter..and a few other questions
Kirk Israel wrote: Also, I noticed it doesn't seem to be closing the document it opens...I can't delete them after the program completes, the system (Windows XP) says they're in use. I assume this is related to how an instance of OOo seems to be opening behind the scenes. In general I'm fine with that still running in the background, since it makes subsequent requests faster...but I will definately need to be able to clean up the pre-converted files... is there a way to close the document properly that will unlock it? is there a seperate way of stopping the OOo instance, if I wanted to? Call xThisComponent.close( True ) on the css.util.XCloseable interface of the created document after you are done with it. Second, http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=11744 not only has a list of Filters (is there a better place to get that list from?) it also suggests using HTML (StarWriter) in palce of HTML...that's what I had to do as well to convert a Word .doc. Is that the best practice? OOo has three kinds of text documents: TextDocument, WebDocument, MasterDocument. When you load a Word file a TextDocument will be created so you have to use the HTML filter of the TextDocument for HTML export. HTML is the filter of the WebDocument, so using this filter name for exporting a TextDocument should produce an error, HTML (StarWriter) is the correct name (the name is determined by history). BTW: for the other way around (HTML-doc) you should specify HTML (StarWriter) as *input* filter explicitly, otherwise OOo will create a WebDocument by default and the WebDocument has much less export formats than the TextDocument, especially it lacks a Word export filter. 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] Unanswered Question - Reloading Document - Convert Hidden Doc to NonHidden Doc
Kent Gibson wrote: Hi-ya Sorry to pester but does anyone have any ideas? I tried to explain the problem clearly but it is a tricky problem. I suppose I could summarise it by asking, how would one convert a hidden document efficiently into a non hidden document. Right now it takes me about 3 minutes to render the document and then about 10 minutes just to convert it into a non hidden document for viewing. OOO 2.0.2 allows you to make a hidden document visible by a simple API call. Is that what you want? In Basic it's simply: doc.loadComponentFromURL(...) ' hidden loading ' ' now do with the document what you want ' ' now make it visible doc.CurrentController.Frame.ContainerWindow.setVisible( True ) You could do the same in older versions (the API already existed) but the document would behave strange afterwards (file will not be released when document is closed), it needed some fixes in the code that have been applied in 2.0.2. But admittedly I don't understand how this is related to your original question about the bad performance for refreshing a document by reloading. BTW: considering that each refresh requires a complete write/read cycle I don't think that the performance is as expected. In general the load/save performance in OOo is not very good and we are working on this, but don't expect exact promises now about when we will reach which performance gain. 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] Unanswered Question - Reloading Document - Convert Hidden Doc to NonHidden Doc
Kent Gibson wrote: argh. please help. this is driving me batty. Ok i have an empty frame, XWindow xWindow = ( XWindow ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XWindow.class, officeWindow.getUNOWindowPeer() ); object = serviceFactory.createInstance( com.sun.star.frame.Frame ); XFrame documentFrame = ( XFrame ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XFrame.class, object ); documentFrame.initialize( xWindow ); documentFrame.setName( documentFrame.toString() ); // Register frame at the desktop XFrames xFrames = ( ( XFramesSupplier ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XFramesSupplier.class, desktop ) ).getFrames(); xFrames.append( documentFrame ); then I go and create a blank document and put it into my frame: XComponentLoader frameComponentLoader = ( XComponentLoader ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XComponentLoader.class, documentFrame); loadedComponent = frameComponentLoader.loadComponentFromURL( url, _self, 0, args ); the purpose so that I can see a nice blank doc. then I go and create another blank doc. I do some rendering and I want to replace my first doc with the second doc. This isn't possible so easily. There are several other options, but I don't know which I should recommend because I don't know what your goal is. You could: - not create the first document at all (why do you?) - add the model of the second document to a MediaDescriptor and use loadComponentFromURL at the first frame, thus replacing the first doc - perhaps even don't create a second frame and only use a standalone model that you insert in the same way into your frame It's hard do make a good suggestion without knowing your intended workflow or functionality. for example this does not work: documentFrame.setComponent( documentFrame.getContainerWindow(),officeDocument.getCurrentController()); Yes, this is not possible, a controller is owned by a frame as soon as you have created it and it can be only in one frame at a time. This means once you remove it from a frame to put it into another one the frame will dispose of the controller. You only can move the *model* from one frame to another (or have it in more than one frame at the same time), thus creating a new controller each time you insert the model into a frame. Currently this needs the way mentioned above (use a Model parameter in MediaDescriptor, see DevGuide), we are working on an API to make this easier and more elegant. The guide saysCurrently, the only way for clients to construct a frame and insert a OpenOffice.org document into it, is to use the com.sun.star.frame.XComponentLoader interface of the com.sun.star.frame.Desktop but this is not clear to me. Yes, as I said: Controllers can't be moved between frames, the only way to get a model into a frame is to create a new Controller. And the only way to achieve this currently is loadComponentFromURL. 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] Unanswered Question - Reloading Document - Convert Hidden Doc to NonHidden Doc
Kent Gibson wrote: thanks for the details. What you said about adding a model to the media descriptor seems very interesting. However it does not seem to be documented. I tried something quickly along these lines: XModel model = ( XModel ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XModel.class, connection.getTextDocument()); PropertyValue prop1 = new PropertyValue(); prop1.Name = Model; prop1.Value = model; loadedComponent = frameComponentLoader.loadComponentFromURL( private:stream, _self, 0, args ); and I get om.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URL seems to be an unsupported one. It seems that OOo tries to do a type detection though this is superfluous here. I will check this. Meanwhile you could try to provide a valid stream here to workaround the problem (it will not be used for loading!). 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] Closing documents w/ simplest possible converter..and a few other questions
Kirk Israel wrote: Mathias, many thanks, I got the close aspect working. In general, is there any filter that...tries less hard, I guess I would say, in terms of capturing more of the traditional HTML aspects, and less of the CSS Font information? Or will I probably be filtering that by hand? I'm not sure if I understand your question; anyway, there is only one HTML filter. Does that anwert it? ;-) Second, with the kind of basic converstion I'm doing, is there any way to neatly bundle the neccesary OOo bits w/o doing a full install? Or are things too integrated to have a distributable subset like that? You will always need a complete OOo application, not necessarily a complete *installation*. Explanation: on Windows you can unpack OOo2 by using setup /a and use it from where you unpacked it to. Now you don't have a system integration because OOo is not really installed, just unpacked, but from your POV this seems to be advantage. The drawback is that without system integration you can't use the new OOo bootstrapping process for your Java program, you have to create the OOo connection by hand as you did in OOo1. From this complete installation you could remove all unnecessary bits but admittedly I don't know what exactly you can remove. Oh, and thirdly, should I try to publish my cleaned up simple conversion example somwhere (besides my own site, even though my personal site isn't usually so techie) and if so where? Usually this is where our code snippet base comes in handy. You could add your example there if there isn't anything like it already. 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] View
Francesco Liuzzi wrote: How can I work on the same document using different views? The simplest way is to take the frame of your current view and dispatch the command .uno:NewWindow to it. This will create a second view like the menu command in the Window menu. 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] XScrollbar
Kent Gibson wrote: I do a lot of add hoc rendering. At one point the user scrolls around and then renders the document again, and all I want to do is reset the scrollbars back to where the user was. I reuse the frame but the document is getting rerendered. You can achieve this by listening for OnVisAreaChanged Events of the document. This way you also get notifications if the size of the visible part of the document changes. 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] Resolved: Urgent Unanswered Question - Issue id 63211
Fernand Vanrie wrote: Kent, and others Yes thats what y meaned, its common (and strange) that some property-informatiion only can be founded/obtained after you placed the object in the the document. For some property's (graphics) i had to enumerate, all graphics, to optain some info from a, individual graphic. why ??? Some properties are not part of the document model (like the automatic height of a frame) and you need to layout the document to get it. Without a view Writer doesn't create a layout so you need to create a view to force Writer to calculate the missing property. Additionally you need some luck that the API allows you to ask for it. ;-) 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] Easy to use complex toolbar controls for add-ons
Laurent Godard wrote: i red rapidelly but is it possible to implement the reactors of objects in Basic ?It seems to me that Paolo already asked something like this, no ? a way could be a generic service taking the macro name as argument and doing a transparent relay. Would it be difficult to do ? i do not think so We could provide a generic DispatchObject Service that implements the css.frame.XDispatch interface. This interface allows the UI element it is bound to to execute its bound command or query for the new interfaces created by Carsten for the new callbacks, so this generic object will also implement all these nice new interfaces just to forward to macros. For this purpose each of these callbacks (dispatch() being the simplest) will be transferred to a corresponding event and through an event binding interface the object allows to bind a macro to them. The tricky parts are that the macros need a defined signature for each of the callback macros and that we must be able to hand over different kinds of parameters to the macros. The first is only not nice (wrong macro bindings might lead to a crash), but for the second I'm not sure wether we can do this. We have to check this with Andreas Bregas. Perhaps instead of macro event bindings we could use listeners as Basic is able to implement them? But I'm not sure wether listeners implemented in Basic will survive the termination of the macro that registers them. But you or Paolo as Basic experts know, I assume. ;-) There still is the other way around: once a UI element gets a dispatch object it will register at it as a css.frame.XStatusEventListener and expects to receive status events. Thew new controls don't make any sense without providing proper status information. The macro code must be able to provide this information and it must be able to *update* it when needed. So each created dispatch object must be accessible somehow later to send a new status. This means: you must store the information for this somewhere, you can't store it in variables in your basic code because you shouldn't have your macro running permanently by using a busy loop. So where should the data go? You see: a lot of questions to answer. But not impossible. :-) Perhaps it would help if you ore Paolo could describe a possible use case where you would like to use the new toolbar control features in basic code. 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] Easy to use complex toolbar controls for add-ons
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Mathias Thanks for your response Perhaps instead of macro event bindings we could use listeners as Basic is able to implement them? But I'm not sure wether listeners implemented in Basic will survive the termination of the macro that registers them. But you or Paolo as Basic experts know, I assume. ;-) sounds interresting listeners can survive using a global variable but, the remaining problem is how to start the listeners Hm, listeners can be registered by another macro, that itself can by started by an event - and the listeners themselves are called by the event source. Or what do you mean? The macro code must be able to provide this information and it must be able to *update* it when needed. So each created dispatch object must be accessible somehow later to send a new status. This means: you must store the information for this somewhere, you can't store it in variables in your basic code because you shouldn't have your macro running permanently by using a busy loop. So where should the data go? using a global variable let you store information The problem with global variables is that they are, well, global. If you have more than one extension they might use the same global variables. Or is there something like global in the library or module scope that still can survive the termination of the macro? (Sorry, I'm not an OOo Basic expert.) ok let's try - a dropdown list in the toolbar nammed myToolbarObject - this object has an event change - reacting on this event, a macro can be called, passing an event objetc, containing the source of that event As already mentioned: currently there is no way to pass an object to a macro that shall be called by macro URL or macro name. Problem number one. to setup the called macro via the event, a new node could be insterted in the addon.xcu prop oor:name=ControlType oor:type=xs:string valueCombobox/value /prop ... ... ... prop oor:name=Events prop oor:name=change oor:type=xs:string prop oor:name=URL oor:type=xs:string valuemacro://mylib.mymodule.aMacro/value /prop prop oor:name=otherevent oor:type=xs:string prop oor:name=URL oor:type=xs:string valuemacro://mylib.mymodule.otherMacro/value /prop /prop and then having a macro sub aMacro(event) theCombo = event.source 'print the combobox name print event.source.Name end sub So this is a kind of listeners but that are automatically launched when loading the toolbar (btw, this should already be done) Then, reacting on an event is calling the specified macro with the event object as argument. that's why i spoke of a kind of relaying If I understood correctly you want to create a listbox in the toolbar that depending on the selected entry calls different macros, right? Now let's discuss the way how the listbox gets filled. This is the point where the status updating comes into play: a dispatch object will initialize the listbox and also change its content. As already described this is the second problem I see that needs to be solved if we want to use all the new toolbar features in Basic. Your example seems to be simpler: I don't see that you want to change the content of the listbox at runtime, so having a static dropdown menu button that gets the macros to be called for each list entry by a configuration file (Addon.xcu) and not by status updating as described by Carsten would be enough. Why establishing a complex communication channel for something that is sent only once? If you just want to allow listboxes in toolbars bound to Basic macros we could make this possible by creating a new toolbar button type that reads the list from the Addon.xcu, just like a sub menu in the Addon menu. 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] Easy to use complex toolbar controls for add-ons
Hi Paolo, Paolo Mantovani wrote: Just a small addition: Of course, holding a reference of the listener into a global variable is a good thing, (especially when you need to de-register it at latter time), anyway, the listener survives even if you don't store it in a global var: AFAIK a registered listener is not disposed by the Basic engine while the broadcaster still holds a reference to it: f.e. with the following code you will be bothered by the msgbox whenever you change selection, and to kill the listener you must close the document: -- Sub testListener() oListener = createUnoListener(Doc_, _ com.sun.star.view.XSelectionChangeListener) ThisComponent.CurrentController.addSelectionChangeListener(oListener) End Sub Sub Doc_selectionChanged(oEvent) msgbox ciao End Sub Sub Document_disposing(oEvent) 'nothing to do End Sub -- That sounds like a clear sign that listeners implemented in Basic will work as long as their library code is not swapped out. So I think the listener approach would be the way to go because it solves the problem of handing over objects to the basic code quite easily. This morning I had another idea that might solve the other problems: if we use a dispatch object service as a relay between the UI elements and the basic code as I proposed we also can use this object as a storage for data associated to this connection, e.g. by providing a property container (that is used from Basic quite easily!). This way you don't need to use global variables. And if we want to send status updates to the UI element we can do this based on the data stored at the object and by calling a forwarding method of the object. The only problem then will be to identify the dispatch object amongst the bunch of them that might have been created, but as we can make frame and command URL accessible to the listener (implemented in Basic) we can use the combination of both as a unique identifier for searching for the dispatch object in a global container of such objects. I will draw up this in a more detailed manner. 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] Easy to use complex toolbar controls for add-ons
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Carsten Just for your infomration. The new toolbar controller enhancements are not a com.sun.star.awt substitution. The implementation is deeply integrated into the Office framework and therefore cannot support the same feature set as low-level awt controls! Most functions are supported or can be added without any problem. thanks for your precision but this sounds odd to me regarding UNO nature and componentization I'll have a look (m169 just finished downloading) trying to understand how it actually works (with an external poor user pow) But i think that script coders are expecting to have access to the standard features and events of such controls and that's why i told about the awt controls Carsten already explained why our concept is more abstract than the AWT. But there is another reason why we don't expose concrete controls: we don't want to lose the flexibility to change our UI. As an example, if OOo would ever want to implement something like the new ribbon GUI from the upcoming MS Office 12 we could do that without any changes in the other code of OOo, just because there is no code anywhere in OOo except in the LayoutManager that knows about the concrete build-up of the UI elements. We only expose what we think belongs to the nature of the dispatched commands, not how they are visualized. At the end that's what the Dispatch API (and Carsten's new extensions) is about. As an example, if your command is assigned to a list of element where you can choose one and also have a status information about which one was chosen for the current context the natural representation of this fact is an element list, so there is an API to exchange list functions. But we don't expose wether we represent this list as a list box or something else so that we are free in our current and future(!) implementations, we only expose the idea of a list being part of our GUI. Think about it in the following way (I again take the example of an element list): Your code is assigned to one or more GUI elements that visualize a list of elements (e.g. strings) and allow to choose one of them. OTOH these elements expect from your code that it tells them which element should be taken as the currently selected one (if possible). That's the contract between your code and the GUI. How the elements look (if they look at all - they could be implemented completely different, e.g. by assistive technologies, as accoustic controls etc.) and where they are located is not only unknown to you, it's completely irrelevant. I hope you can see the benefit of this approach and that you don't loose anything with it because all essential information is handled through the abstract communication API(s) laid out by Carsten. I for myself would have liked to have abstract assignments of commands to types (like string list, integer value etc.) instead of (button) control names, but Carsten preferred the control names instead because it looks simpler and less techy. As it is his baby I think that's okay, but OTOH it seems that it sets wrong expectations. 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] Easy to use complex toolbar controls for add-ons
Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Mathias Hm, listeners can be registered by another macro, that itself can by started by an event - and the listeners themselves are called by the event source. Or what do you mean? how is the first macro called ? Event bindings, jobs ... regarding, the scope, as paolo sais, it seems to be possible that listeners are not unregistred when the macro ends i've never tested this way but this does not solve this specific problem (perharps using an array ?) *If* listeners survive the macro termination at all I assume they don't need a global variable; as long as they are registered somewhere there is another object that should hold them alive. My apprehensions have been that it's not a question of object life time but some basic internal problems. We should check that. IMHO Basic listeners should work until their UNO RefCount goes down to zero. As already mentioned: currently there is no way to pass an object to a macro that shall be called by macro URL or macro name. Problem number one. that's why i spoke about an intermediate that relay the call, adding the event Btw, do you mean inside the code or through xcu files ? Inside the code. And a relay object doesn't really help here. At the end there has to be an object that calls the macro by URL, e.g. by using macro URL dispatching or Scripting Framework call and IIRC you can't pass an object reference or anything else than strings either way. But please see my last comment in this mail. If I understood correctly you want to create a listbox in the toolbar that depending on the selected entry calls different macros, right? no take the uno list objetc it has events, i want to have the same ones That's what you wrote. But is it really what you need? ;-) Without dynamic status updating and receiving all the events are pretty useless. *If* you want to use them you need to think about ways to store the data and perhaps update the UI elements on demand. Now let's discuss the way how the listbox gets filled. This is the point where the status updating comes into play: a dispatch object will initialize the listbox and also change its content. As already described this is the second problem I see that needs to be solved if we want to use all the new toolbar features in Basic. right, but teh same mechanism previously proposed can be used, no ? i tis a matter of event intializing We face the same problems here: if you call a macro by name all you can pass to it are string parameters. But again please see below. Your example seems to be simpler: I don't see that you want to change the content of the listbox at runtime, so having a static dropdown menu button that gets the macros to be called for each list entry by a configuration file (Addon.xcu) and not by status updating as described by Carsten would be enough. Why establishing a complex communication channel for something that is sent only once? argh, perharps my example was not so good explained obviously, i want to be able to manipulate the listbox dynamically !! fill it, remove items, retreive active item ... like a real componenent OK, in this case you need the full program and this maybe can be done by implementing the idea I described in my last mail. Perhaps we should continue there. 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] Easy to use complex toolbar controls for add-ons
Laurent Godard wrote: The only problem then will be to identify the dispatch object amongst the bunch of them that might have been created, but as we can make frame and command URL accessible to the listener (implemented in Basic) we can use the combination of both as a unique identifier for searching for the dispatch object in a global container of such objects. I will draw up this in a more detailed manner. each toolbar objects has a name so a getByName like over a sequence could be a solution Please forget the toolbars. ;-) The command URL is the only thing that counts, in conjunction with a frame reference. I hope I can make this clear in a more elaborated description. I'm afraid I will not be able to provide it before the weekend. I'm working on OOo programmability mostly as a volunteer also. :-) 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] GRAPHIC questions
Fernand Vanrie wrote: Placing an embedded -grahpic into a WriterDoc (with the GUI or withe the API) gives different results depending if you placed it as a linked-graphic or and embedded-graphic. Embedded gives us the orinal dimensions (as difined in the Imagefile-header) gives us the correct orginal-size , the image had a scale of 100% and a correct image-size Linked gives us the a wrong orginal size (based on 96 DPI) a scaling with a percentage to optain a correct image size !! Is this behabior wanted or is it a bug ? Sounds like a bug to me. I suggest creating an issue. Before we place the image we can resize and reformat the graphic and define if we embed or link the grahic. I tried different ways to acomplish this task, it can be done, opening a hidden drawdoc and then place the grapic as a Shade, and finaly exporting the drawpage using the filteroptions to re-size and re-format the imagefile. To avoid the hidden drawdoc i tryed differend ways to acomplis the same task: Using the GrapchicProvider.storeGraphic and defining the MIMEtype was a prommesing option , I can do the re-formating, but i found noway to re-size the imagefile, there exist some filteroptions but found noware any documentation. Exporting the Shape instead of the DrawPage with a filter avoid the use of a hidden DrawDoc , works the filtername gives us the right format but: the filter ignorges the re-sizing options. Exporting the Writer-Drawpage let crashes OO (no pagesize i supose) I have to admit that I don't understand what you are trying to achieve. You started writing about inserting graphics and that you have some problems with it, but now you talk about storing graphics. Do I understand you correctly that storing graphics isn't your real goal, you just do it as part of a workaround to overcome limitations for the resizing/reformatting options? If that is correct: what would you really like to do, without any workarounds? 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] how to make the macros available to all users of a Windows Terminal server
Jo wrote: Hi Carsten, Many thanks for your answer. The next problem is that when logged on as a different user the library containing the macros is not available. I tried to also copy the basic code as follows: C:\Documents and Settings\My Username\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\basic\ETUC\*.* to C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\share\basic\ETUC\ But the module is not recognized any more. When I try to do it properly, then the Add... button becomes grey when I select Macros and Dialog boxes of OpenOffice.org. Can you help me out on this one too? I'm not Carsten but I hope I can help too. :-) Basic has an administration file for all of its libraries and just copying libraries won't help without updating this file. Unfortunately this file is part of each user profile so it needs manual operations in all user installations. Not recommended. Deploying libraries for all users admittedly is a little bit awkward in OOo. The best way is to create a UNO package from the libs and install it with unopkg --shared. Creating packages will be supported by the BasicIDE in OOo2.0.3. The created packages of course will work in any OOo2 version. 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] switching components in one frame
Marc Santhoff wrote: Hi, I'm asking myself if it is possible to start implementing the following scenario: A doc is opened in a frame (and window). On a command of the user the component attached to the frame is stored elsewhere to keep the reference and a second document (component) is loaded into that frame. After a task is done by the user the second component get's saved and destroyed and the first component is attached to the frame again. The goal is to reuse the window presented to the user with variing contents. Will this work or am I asking for trouble regarding attached listeners, dispatch or whatelse? A component inside a frame comprises a controller and a model. You can not keep the controller without the frame, but you can keep the model and you can use this model later on to recreate a controller including a view from it without reloading the document. To preserve the model from being closed when its last controller gets destroyed you must register as a close listener at it and deny its request for becoming closed. The recreation of the view is a little bit tricky because the necessary API currently does not exist (it's in the making though). We ourselves use the following replacement: use the loadComponentFromURL() method of the desired frame, but pass a parameter Model in the MediaDescriptor that contains a reference to the model. This will advise the frame loader to use the existing model and not creating and loading a new one. You must provide the valid URL of the document though (or the stream it was loaded from) to pass the type detection and to avoid confusion in the documents' internal media descriptor. 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] switching components in one frame
Marc Santhoff wrote: The recreation of the view is a little bit tricky because the necessary API currently does not exist (it's in the making though). As far as it works, it's okay with me. :) Do you know an issue number for watching progress on this topic? No, but it will be announced in interface.announce once it's done. We wanted to introduce the new API together with adding the new UNO features to our models (multiple inheritance interfaces, new style service with constructors) but it turned out to be more work than expected. 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] Backgroung conversion crashes when closing last foreground document
Tobias Krais wrote: Hi Mathias, This works perfectly. Nobody is able to kill my little cute programm :-). But. Users can't close their OpenOffice until I don't remove my terminate listener. How can I allow users to close their OO and disallow to close mine? You confuse me. :-) My understanding was that you wanted to prevent exactly this: users closing OOo completely before you are done. Oh! It was not my intension to confuse you :-) Ah, maybe the problem is that OOo doesn't close its open windows on File-Exit when a terminate listener throws a VetoException? Well, this would be an unfortunate behavior. Or is it something else? Thats it. Is there a way to let OO close the open window but to stay in memory? If a terminate listener prevents windows from becoming closed: not without changing the source, I'm afraid. I had a quick look into the source: it seems so. I have to think wether this is a bug or not. 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] Backgroung conversion crashes when closing last foreground document
Tobias Krais wrote: Hi Mathias, Ah, maybe the problem is that OOo doesn't close its open windows on File-Exit when a terminate listener throws a VetoException? Well, this would be an unfortunate behavior. Or is it something else? Thats it. Is there a way to let OO close the open window but to stay in memory? If a terminate listener prevents windows from becoming closed: not without changing the source, I'm afraid. I had a quick look into the source: it seems so. I have to think wether this is a bug or not. in case you submit an issue, please tell me, I'll vote for it :-). Would it be a lot of work to change it? I just have to find out why we made it that way. There must have been a reason. :-) Once we find out that there is no problem with changing it it shouldn't be much to do. 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] Backgroung conversion crashes when closing last foreground document
Hi Christian, Cristian Fonti wrote: Look the issue that i opened, id: 63270 At a first glance I think this something different: this is a problem that appears when you try to close a document. Here we are talking about the ability to prevent OOo from shutting down by still maintaining the ability to close all task windows via File Exit. So we still can get another issue. :-) Best regards, Mathias Best Regard Cristian Mathias Bauer ha scritto: Mathias Bauer wrote: Tobias Krais wrote: Hi Mathias, Ah, maybe the problem is that OOo doesn't close its open windows on File-Exit when a terminate listener throws a VetoException? Well, this would be an unfortunate behavior. Or is it something else? Thats it. Is there a way to let OO close the open window but to stay in memory? If a terminate listener prevents windows from becoming closed: not without changing the source, I'm afraid. I had a quick look into the source: it seems so. I have to think wether this is a bug or not. in case you submit an issue, please tell me, I'll vote for it :-). Would it be a lot of work to change it? I just have to find out why we made it that way. There must have been a reason. :-) Once we find out that there is no problem with changing it it shouldn't be much to do. Seems that we can't find a reason why it needs to be that way. If you think that it should be changed please file an issue for the framework project. Best regards, Mathias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Restarting a frozen OOo
Andreas Schlüns wrote: This is not an asynchronous signal only ... it's our crash handling. That means: one of these threads produced a crash and here we try to save all currently open documents. So the deadlock is a follow up of a crash in a remote use case of the office. Solutions: a) Fix the reason for the crash .-) b) Disable Recovery in your use case by using the command line parameter -norestore by starting the office. Well, though I agree that fixing the crash is always a good idea ;-) I also wonder wether the thread owning the SolarMutex does not return from the X11 call. Obviously the main thread was going to show a tooltip window. Once this had been finished the emergency saving process should continue in the other thread. 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] Toolbar button added using Addon not enabled
bharathy b wrote: Hi Carsten, thank you for replying. The SDK examples create a installable package automatically if you build them with make. I was not aware of this. I will try to find out.Can you please guide me more about it. Please read the build instructions that are part of the SDK. After installing the SDK correctly you can just go to any example directory and call make. This will create the package. Also ,now i understood Function1refers to a function by name Function1. But still i am not clearas to where should i define Function1? Should i define Function1 inside ProtocolHandleraddon.java? Since i am a newbie i am not clear with these concepts. Please read the chapters in the Dev Guide mentioned by Carsten. Any description here would just repeat what is written there. 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] Regarding XJobExecutor.
bharathy b wrote: Hi i wanted to know if the following is possible using the XJobExecutor. Is it possible to have more than one trigger method for an XJobExecutor? At present i have added a toolbar button to the writer document using an Addon. (Using an UNO Component in Java). Onclick of the button creates an htm file in C drive. But now i need to add more buttons to the writer document using a Addon. Suppose i want to add 3 buttons using a single addon. how can i specify the trigger method for the remaining 2 buttons. Are there any better ways of doing this? I tried using ProtocolHandlerAddon but i am still not able to understand dispatcher implementation and how to get the Add-on register itself for the protocol part of the command URL. Please reply and suggest me how to accomplish this.. The ProtocolHandler is the right way to do it. The JobExecutor is not a tool for command dispatching, it's a means to react on events and e.g. register a service. The idea of a ProtocolHandler is quite simple: register your component to be the handler for all commands starting with a particular string that has the shape of a URL protcocol (like http:). So if any command with your protocol in front is found in any UI element your component will be asked for the execution once it is requested by the user. Tha AddOn.xcu file is the way how you can put commands in your toolbar(s) or menu. Please find more about this topic in the DevGuide. 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] Regarding XJobExecutor.
bharathy b wrote: Hi Mathias Thankyou... Regarding the ProtocolHandlerAddon method.. I want to know where should i define sayHello( ). You need to implement a ProtcolHandler, mainly its interface com.sun.star.frame.XDispatchProvider, as described in the DevGuide. Take the demo AddOn from the SDK and debug the code. Maybe this shows you how it works. 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] XModel - creating standalone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Is it possible to create an XModel standalone, i.e. not part of any frame. Yes. Create the model as a service and either initialize or load it. In Basic code: model = createUNOService(com.sun.star.text.TextDocument) model.initNew() will create a new empty text document. dim mediadescriptor(n) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue ' fill mediadescriptor model = createUNOService(com.sun.star.text.TextDocument) model.load( mediadescriptor ) will create and load a document from what you put into the mediadescriptor. Of course in this case you don't have a type detection and you must either put the filter name into the mediadescriptor or manually call the type detection service (not a big deal). For example by Desktop.loadComponentfromURL(_blank, Hidden ... and then keeping a handle to XModel. This works fine. I then load it into a visible frame by adding a Model property to the arguments for the loadComponentFromURL of the visible frame. This also works (Discussed on an earlier thread). Howevwer if I now load a different XModel into this visible frame, any current XModel gets disposed automatically - I wan't (under certain circumstances) to prevent this, i.e. I want to keep the XModel handle in my code for reuse later but still load the new model. Register a CloseListener at the model and veto against closing as long as you need the model. Of course then you must keep track of all models and close them by yourself when you are done with them. I must confess that I don't remember if this really works in your case (it definitely works in case of closing the frame) but you could try and report back. If it doesn't work it's a bug that needs to be fixed. Basically I do this because I don't want multiple XFrames open, but still want concurrent editing of multiple documents. I am trying to reduce the overhead of temporarily writing a stream for the XModel I remove from the frame and rereading, parsing etc... the stream again later. Keeping with this, where is the most overhead in the API, i.e. creating the model, or creating the frame and controller and which uses more resources? The most resources are taken by the model, the frame and controller are much smaller for non-trivial documents. At least that's my guestimation. 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] XModel - creating standalone
Malte von der Lancken-Wakenitz wrote: Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes. Create the model as a service and either initialize or load it. In Basic code: model = createUNOService(com.sun.star.text.TextDocument) model.initNew() will create a new empty text document. dim mediadescriptor(n) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue ' fill mediadescriptor model = createUNOService(com.sun.star.text.TextDocument) model.load( mediadescriptor ) will create and load a document from what you put into the mediadescriptor. Of course in this case you don't have a type detection and you must either put the filter name into the mediadescriptor or manually call the type detection service (not a big deal). I did not get very far with that. I am writing in java and tried this: com.sun.star.text.XTextDocument xm = (com.sun.star.text.XTextDocument) queryInterface(com.sun.star.text.XTextDocument.class, getMultiServiceFactory().createInstanceWithArguments(com.sun.star.text.TextDocument, args)); //(com.sun.star.text.XTextDocument)queryInterface(com.sun.star.text.XTextDocument.class, com.sun.star.text.TextDocument); xm.attachResource(surl, args); The last statement doesn't do anything useful and perhaps even will throw an exception because the document hasn't been initialized properly. Why don't you try what I recommended: com.sun.star.frame.XLoadable xm = (com.sun.star.frame.XLoadable) queryInterface( com.sun.star.frame.XLoadable.class, xFact.createInstance(com.sun.star.text.TextDocument)); xm.initNew(); 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] XModel - creating standalone
Malte von der Lancken-Wakenitz wrote: I can't find any method to explicitly load from a url and the above does not work (I thought it wouldn't). I scoured the api docs, but nothing. How do I do this in java. Forget createInstanceWithArguments, there is nothing documented that this shall pass any arguments to the created model. Please refer to my first mail: com.sun.star.frame.XLoadable is the interface you need for loading or initializing a document. Register a CloseListener at the model and veto against closing as long as you need the model. Of course then you must keep track of all models and close them by yourself when you are done with them. I must confess that I don't remember if this really works in your case (it definitely works in case of closing the frame) but you could try and report back. If it doesn't work it's a bug that needs to be fixed. I had allready tried that and the dispose is still being called. I did notice that if I use a private:factory type url, i.e. create a doc from scratch it does not get disposed. Is this inconsistent behaviour or something I am doing wrong? I can't see why this should make any difference. Please try it with a document created in the way I described and then report back. I have spent about 4 weeks trying to get a set of my own classes to wrap some OO functionality to be able to integrate it with my application. I have come quite far after trying many things, but still have many questions. Would you be prepared to discuss some of them with me during the next few weeks? Well, I will start a three weeks vaction on thursday, so I'm afraid the answer is no at least for these three weeks. But there are others here on the list that should be able to assist you. Of course I can at least try to answer some questions until the end of the week. 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] CloseVetoException has no effect
Christoph Lutz wrote: Hi, I would like to veto the close-action (clicking on the x in a writer document) in such a form, that the document doesn't get closed until my program decides when it's time to close the document. This should be possible by throwing a CloseVetoException in the queryClosing(...) handler when getsOwnership==true, but it does not to work with my example code (below). The CloseVetoException I throw does not seem to prevent OOo from actually closing the document. Any Ideas what could be wrong with my example? I think there is nothing wrong. You have registered as a CloseListener at the document, the model. I assume that this has worked and the model is still there, so it's not surprising that no notifyClosing was called. But that doesn't mean that you have prevented the view(s) on this model from becoming closed, so the window can be closed as usual. If you want to prevent the views from being closed you must register as a close listener at the corresponding frames. 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] MailMerge keeps temporary file open
Jens Beier wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use MailMerge to fill a letter with data from a datasource and save it as PDF. I'm using the setupConnection() and the doMerge() methods from http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.MailMerge.snip I'm getting the XComponentContext and the XMultiComponentFactory. Based on this I can geht the MailMerge-service. Then I set the Mailmerge-properties and execute the XJob. Everything works fine except that OpenOffice does not close the temporary file it uses for this job. So what do I have to do to get the temporary file closed? Do I have to close any special service or interface? In all examples I have found in the Developer Guide and in forums nobody seems to close something after executing MailMerge. I'm using OpenOffice 2.0.2 on a Solaris box. Solaris has a limitation to the number of open files. When I execute the Job several hundred times I'm getting the following error when reaching the limitation of open files: I/O error : Too many open files I/O warning : failed to load external entity /export/home/asaadm/.openoffice.org2/user/config/javasettings_Solaris_x86.xml [Java framework] Error in function copyShareSettings (elements.cxx). and the PDF which is generated only contains symbols like rectangles,... I'm running out of ideas so could anyone help me? Thanks I'm afraid that this is a bug. 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] how to dispatch .uno:ClosePreview from java ?
Oliver Brinzing wrote: Am 07.08.2006 08:41 schrieb Andreas Schlüns: If you wish to force a synchronous execution of your dispatch you should try the argument Asynchron as [bool] with a valud false. are you sure, this works ? I can see no difference ... the preview is not closed even if I use xProps[0] = new PropertyValue(); xProps[0].Name = Asynchron; xProps[0].Value = Boolean.FALSE; Object oDispatch = xDispatch.executeDispatch(xProvider, .uno:ClosePreviewl, , 0, xProps); The name of the property is SynchronMode and of course its value must be set to True in case you want to have synchronous execution. Closing a view synchronously is a little bit risky. If the code is executed from a call stack that was started somewhere inside a VCL resource (e.g. a toolbar) it *could* lead to a crash. So you have to try out if it works. 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] how to dispatch .uno:ClosePreview from java ?
Oliver Brinzing wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mathias, The name of the property is SynchronMode and of course its value must be set to True in case you want to have synchronous execution. I tried it, without success, it seems, it's not possible to close the preview from java ... What means without success? What exactly did you do and what exactly happened? 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] ODT to PDF export incorrect, unless Thread.sleep() used
Tim Anderson wrote: Thanks for the tip. I've inserted the following between the load and save - it appears to work: XTextFieldsSupplier supplier = (XTextFieldsSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextFieldsSupplier.class, document); XEnumerationAccess fields = supplier.getTextFields(); XRefreshable refreshable = (XRefreshable) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XRefreshable.class, fields); refreshable.refresh(); Is there an explanation for why this works? It seems that there are some necessary updates to be done after loading and for performance reasons they usually are done in the background. IMHO even then there should be some code for forcing these updates in those cases where they should be up to date, but obviously this doesn't happen. I consider this to be a bug. If the Writer uses asynchronous updating procedures and OTOH has some API calls that require updated objects prior to their execution (like PDF export or printing) there should be a trigger that these API calls can use to force all pending updeates (that of course should be registered there before). 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] how to dispatch .uno:ClosePreview from java ?
Oliver Brinzing wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mathias, What means without success? What exactly did you do and what exactly happened? that means, the preview is not closed, if i open a message box directly after the excecuteDispatch(), it does not matter if i use the SynchronMode or not ... the message box is shown in preview mode, after closing it, preview mode is still active ... without showMessageBox() the preview is closed ... This shows that closing is not done synchronously and so it is prevented by the dialog box that is opened before the view can be exchanged. Of course you can't close a view that contains a modal dialog! Obviously there is an additional asynchronity in the code that executes the ClosePreview command, it's not the dispatcher that works asynchronously. I had a look into the Writer code and indeed this is what happens. The closing of the preview is done by creating a new view and replacing the preview in the same window by it, and this is done asynchronously. I assume this is done to protect against possible crashes in case execution of the dispatch calls is requested by an object inside the view that can't cope with being killed itself before the call returns. So at least currently you can't do anything against it, except writing an issue of course asking the Writer developers for switching to a synchronous exchange of the View (though I don't know if this is feasible). Best regards, Mathias Bauer -- 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] Unpublished UNO API
Bjoern Milcke wrote: Hi Jürgen, I am always happy when one of my demo components developed for StarOffice 6.0 (before OO.org) work with StarOffice 8 as well. I think it can be a good reason for customers to switch to SO/OO.org using our API (with java for example) because they know that the implementation of macros, some integration and/or extension is a one time investment and would work with future versions as well. It is not really calculable for professional ISV's or bigger companies if they have to check their code with every new version of the product. MS has shown how successful they were with their compatible API's over years. Maybe I missed your irony here, but: Back in the old days I developed some macros for Word 1.0, which didn't run in Word 1.1. After conversion they didn't work in Word 2.0. And today those files even don't open (except in OOo ;-) ). I also did some macros in Excel. Then they had a German version where they had the idea to translate the API! (exit loop = verlasse durchlaufe), then they switched back to English (seeing that it was a bad idea). At some point there was also the invention of VBA (AFAIR before it was some more basic Baisc ;-) ), which was also a change. So, to make a long story short, I wouldn't call MS's API in Office very compatible. (I remember they had some lengthy methods, where they only changed the order of parameters). Maybe the API stayed stable since I stopped developing MS Macros (which is quite some time ago) But, I think what is important here: they had conversion tools, or at least documentation what changed and how to migrate. I think this is a crucial part for the acceptance of changed API. If you open an old Macro, get a dialog and say Yes and it still runs, I think nobody would object. However, of course, we do not only have Macros, so we need at least migration guides for extension programmers who use different languages. This will not solve the problem as this again depends on the work of the extension programmer. The user still would be lost if the developer didn't react. If there was only Basic the worst thing that could happen is a macro that doesn't run (as Basic uses late binding), but in case of real programming languages most probably OOo would crash. 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] Assign to Save)-as) events behaviour
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi *, In order to force/advice the saving of certain documents on a specified location, I prepared some macro's, looking at the documents state, name and such, and opening the save-dialog. Then I assigned the macro's to Save(-As) with Tools|Customisation|Events in order that a click on the 'floppy' or File|Save triggers my macro. However, it appears (2.0.3, on XP, 2.0.2 on Madrake) that my code is triggered áfter the regular Save(-As) actions :-\ Yes and no. Your code will be triggered right after the dialog is closed but before the real saving starts. These events are means to perform actions on the document before they get saved, not as a hook to replace the built-in UI code. What am I supposed to do to actually replace those? This is what DispatchInterceptors are for. Unfortunately you can't implement them in Basic. Replacing dispatch actions triggered by the UI with macros is currently not supported. Sounds like a good idea though. 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] GraphicProvider and export of graphics
Jimmy wrote: That's exactly my problem, I can't translate it. It takes some more steps in Java to create a GraphicProvider, and I can't get it to work. Does that mean that XGraphicProvider xGraphicProvider = (XGraphicProvider) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XGraphicProvider.class, xMSF.createInstance(com.sun.star.graphic.GraphicProvider)); does not return an object? 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] embed a browser inside openoffice dialog
Madhan Ponnusamy wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have a web browser inside the openoffice dialog if it is possible what is API used for that purpose Of course it is possible, but this outside of the scope of the OOo API. The Gecko engine as well as the Internet Explorer have their own APIs that can be used to embed them into a system window. 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] Assign to Save)-as) events behaviour
Paolo Mantovani wrote: Hi Mathias, Alle 16:50, martedì 5 settembre 2006, Mathias Bauer ha scritto: Cor Nouws wrote: Hi *, In order to force/advice the saving of certain documents on a specified location, I prepared some macro's, looking at the documents state, name and such, and opening the save-dialog. Then I assigned the macro's to Save(-As) with Tools|Customisation|Events in order that a click on the 'floppy' or File|Save triggers my macro. However, it appears (2.0.3, on XP, 2.0.2 on Madrake) that my code is triggered áfter the regular Save(-As) actions :-\ Yes and no. Your code will be triggered right after the dialog is closed but before the real saving starts. These events are means to perform actions on the document before they get saved, not as a hook to replace the built-in UI code. What am I supposed to do to actually replace those? This is what DispatchInterceptors are for. Unfortunately you can't implement them in Basic. Replacing dispatch actions triggered by the UI with macros is currently not supported. Sounds like a good idea though. Although an official support is actually missing, with a creative ;-) use of the createUnoListener() function it's possible to intercept dispatches and replace dispatch actions with your arbitrary basic code. Yes, correct. Of course this is something I recommend only to experienced developers. Thanks for posting this example. Does it exist as a code snippet BTW? We should mention two things here: Your example does not support the StatusListeners so it will not send any status events to the GUI. This will work in many cases but not in all. In case of the Save command this command will never be disabled then. This is not a serious problem but it will look unusual at least. In this case it could help to redirect StatusListeners to the SlaveDispatcher. The interceptor also must be registered somehow, so binding the macro that registers it to the event OnViewCreated on a global level is recommened. 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] GraphicProvider and export of graphics
Jimmy wrote: An Exception gets thrown, and I don't really know why since xMSF exists, since I can initiate other services with it but it doesn't seem to work for the GraphicProvider. Code: XMultiServiceFactory xMSF = (XMultiServiceFactory) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XMultiServiceFactory.class, xTextDocument); Ah, I see: you took the wrong service manager. For global objects you must take the one you have bootstrapped, not the one from the document. The MultiServiceFactory at the document model is only for some special objects. If you had posted this in your first mail ... 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] Disptach Interceptor
Jimmy wrote: I've been trying to implement a dispatch interceptor for commands in my java component without success. I've been checking different examples on the list and the developers guide but couldn't get any of those to work properly. I don't really know how to connect the interceptor to the actual writer component. As I understand it the Frame has to be connected with the XDispatchProviderInterceptor, which is implemented in my Interceptor class. But how am I connecting this class with the frame? From the DevGuide (in chapter 6.1.6): This chain usually only consists of the frame and the controller of the office component it contains, but the frame offers the com.sun.star.frame.XDispatchProviderInterception interface where other providers are inserted. They are called before the frame tries to find a dispatch object for a command URL, so that it is possible to put the complete dispatch communication in a frame under external control. More than one interceptor can be registered, thus building a bigger chain. So please have a look at the com.sun.star.frame.XDispatchProviderInterception interface that is supported by the frame. 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] GraphicProvider and export of graphics
Jimmy wrote: I'm sorry, missed that code in the last e-mail. But which one are you talking about? This is my component initialisation and all I get is the xMCF but no xMSF which I need. It's only possible to create the xMSF with an XTextDocument, isn't it? No, get the service manager from the ComponentContext. The object you get by calling xMCF = xComponentContext.getServiceManager(); is the service manager from which you can get your GraphicProvider, in the same way you got your desktop service fromit. Sorry for my comment about bootstrapping, I thought you are developing a standalone Java application, in this case you had to bootstrap UNO to get a component context. 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] How can I concatenate a stream word collection
aloizio wrote: Hi I need to merge some Word files that are streams. I receive it as a InputStream collection and I must generate a OutputStream. I am already able to load them as XInputStream into OpenOffice I but How can I write a new word document that contains the previous merged? Do you mean that you want to concatenate the documents, i.e. load the first one, attach the second one etc.? It *could* work by using the XDocumentInsertable interface but unfortunately the implementation of this interface in Writer has a bug: it doesn't load from a stream, only from a URL. So you can load the first document from a stream, put all others into a temporary file and insert them using the URL. Or you could wait until the bug is fixed (should be next version past the upcoming 2.0.1 release). I don't remember the Issue ID but I know there is one. Then you can save the whole file to an empty stream and push it into your database. Besr -- 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] Assign to Save)-as) events behaviour
Paolo Mantovani wrote: Your example does not support the StatusListeners so it will not send any status events to the GUI. This will work in many cases but not in all. In case of the Save command this command will never be disabled then. This is not a serious problem but it will look unusual at least. Of course you are right! With a small work I've been able to manage the status-listener (at least for the .uno:Save dispatch) directly from my basic program. In this case it could help to redirect StatusListeners to the SlaveDispatcher. This would seem a bit more difficult, but I've to experiment more... Yes, sorry I forgot that in Basic some things are more complicated. :-) It should be possible to pass the add/removeStatusListener calls to the SlaveDispatcher but I admit I haven't tested it in Basic. The interceptor also must be registered somehow, so binding the macro that registers it to the event OnViewCreated on a global level is recommened. I can't find this event among the ones available in the user interface. Perhaps is it only available via the API ? Yes, it's only available through the API. We could add it to the GUI but then the configuration would display wrongly in older versions (it would work though as the event is there for some time). Should we add it to the GUI? It is at least important for all events that target frames not documents. 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] Problem: rtf files haven't header and footer.
aloizio wrote: Hi everybody, I am trying to merge a lot of RTF documents into only one rtf document. The problem happens when some rtf files have header and footer. They don't appear in the final merged document. Why the header and footer do not appear in merged document? Should I set any parameter of Xcursor or XText? Do they vanish only in case you merge them or do they also vanish if you load each file on its own? In case it's the latter it looks like a bug in the RTF import, in case it's the former I would blame the merger. Without testing it by myself I assume it's a bug (or perhaps incompleteness) of the RTF import. 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] Problem: rtf files haven't header and footer.
aloizio wrote: Hi The problem happens when The Word Document that contains Header and Footer are converted to RTF document. The header and footer normally appear in RTF Document. But when the RTF Documents are merged the header and footer do not appear into the merged document. Therefore, they vanish only in case I merge them. Sounds strange. I recommend to file an issue and attach at least two rtf example documents that can be used to study the effect. 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] Problem to connect openoffice via Tomcat
aloizio wrote: Hi everybody, I am trying to load the OpenOffice using com.sun.star.comp.helper.Bootstrap.bootstrap(), frrom web application. But I am get the error: no executable office found What should I do? First you should tell more about your environment: which platform, which OOo version. 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] XDispatchProvider implementation
Jimmy wrote:
I already had an XDispatchProvider implementation for my Java component
which worked.
Now I'm trying to move the DispatchProvider/Dispatch into its own class
instead of implementing it in the root class Editor (the one with
WeakBase, XServiceInfo).
So all I did was create a new class and copy everything concerning the
DispatchProvider to the new class Dispatcher.
public class Dispatcher implements XDispatchProvider, XDispatch,
XInitialization {
...
Then I changed the ProtocolHandler to point to the new Dispatcher.
oor:component-data oor:name=ProtocolHandler
oor:package=org.openoffice.Office
xmlns:oor=http://openoffice.org/2001/registry;
xmlns:xs=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
node oor:name=HandlerSet
node oor:name=org.openoffice.addon.Dispatcher oor:op=replace
prop oor:name=Protocols oor:type=oor:string-list
valueorg.openoffice.addon.Editor:*/value
/prop
/node
/node
/oor:component-data
When I startup the menu items stay grayed out. Isn't it possible to have
the Dispatchstuff in a special class? What am I missing here?
You could find out wether your service can be instantiated at all? Just
try (in Basic)
obj = CreateUnoService(org.openoffice.addon.Dispatcher)
print IsNull(obi)
If you don't get an object there might be something wrong with your
service or its registration.
Best regards,
Mathias
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Re: [api-dev] Disable navigator (OOoBean, OpenOffice 2.0.3)
Harald Weyhing wrote: Hi all, I need to disable the navigator what can be done easily for menus, toolbars and F5 by modifying the user configuration. Actually double click on the page number in the status bar also starts up the navigator. I tried to intercept .uno:navigator but that does not help in this case. The only way I found to prevent the navigator here is to intercept .uno:StatePageNumber, but then the current page number in the status bar won't get updated any more. Is there another way to intercept the navigator in this case? I'm afraid not so easily, obviously the code that reacts on the double click doesn't use the way it should. By intercepting .uno::StatePageNumber of course you could do it in the following way: - forward add/removeStatusListener calls to the SlaveDispatcher object - don't do anything in case you get a dispatch() call for this command 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] Obscure documentation (Was: [api-dev] insertnewbookmark)
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:31 +0200, Stephan Wunderlich wrote: Hi Knut, Ok, thanx. I'll make shure to file issues. There is a lot of them.. Starting with: 69861 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi? id=69861 and 69863 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69863 That is great :-) ... As you already pointed out a good documentation is crucial if external developers should be attracted to program for OOo. So every step to make it better is one in the right direction :-) I agree. One problem though, the documentation project does not have the source documents so it is unlikely that the documents in the issues will ever be updated. Perhaps the component on the issues is wrong. I will take care that the issues get the right assignments. 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] Obscure documentation (Was: [api-dev] insertnewbookmark)
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: WHat is this? I gather from your comments that the guide is proprietary. If this is the case then perhaps it is time for the OOo folk to think about having one of their own. Certainly an incentive for a project. Thanks. It seems that you don't know all the facts, so let me explain them to you. Jürgen is already working on this matter for quite some time. It takes this time, for whatever reasons. Especially Jürgen is one of the greatest advocates of open sourcing the DevGuide, but giving something into open source is not just throwing it out and shouting come and get it. I can understand that Jürgen is a little bit upset about Laurents question because it was already answered several times, and the answer always was: we (the authors) would like to open source it but it's not that easy, please be patient. OTOH if anybody else wants to create a new DevGuide nobody will complain against this (provided that its quality would be sufficient). We have no commercial interest in the DevGuide. So please let's not discuss about something that probably won't happen ever. Thanks. 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] Obscure documentation (Was: [api-dev] insertnewbookmark)
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Actually I think he reacted so strongly to my comment on the component perhaps being incorrect. The doc project does not have the source for the document but the issue shows up in our queue. I thought that we might help. Help is always appreciated. :-) As I already wrote, I will take care for the correct assignment of the issues. At the end it will be one of the developers who has to provide the documentation content so I will search for the right one. OTOH if anybody else wants to create a new DevGuide nobody will complain against this (provided that its quality would be sufficient). We have no commercial interest in the DevGuide. You know this might not be a bad idea. I will ask to see if any are interested. What with the contest, I do not expect a swift response but who knows. My personal opinion (and the one of Jürgen as well IIRC) is that we want to hand over the DevGuide to the community. Jürgen might correct me later if I'm wrong, currently he's on a business trip. This will still not change a lot as most of the content will still come from the core developers but at least there will be a chance for others to contribute and of course to translate. Let's hope for the best. 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] prevent document closing
Adam Patacchiola wrote: Hi, How can I prevent a document from closing? I've figured out how to do it for the frame by adding a CloseListener and throwing a CloseVetoException in queryClosing, but this does not seem to work for the internal document. It works the same way. The document will not be closed (=destroyed) then. I assume that you also want to prevent the document windows from being closed. This is only possible by registering your listener at the corresponding frames. 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] prevent document closing
Adam Patacchiola wrote: //If i add the listener to the frame here, the outer most frame is prevented from closing, but the user can still click the internal document window's close button and the document will close which is not the behavior I want /* XCloseBroadcaster xcb = (XCloseBroadcaster)frame; xcb.addCloseListener(new CloseListener());*/ Well, in fact the frame isn't closed, so there is no reason to ask your listener for permission. There is only one frame object involved, this object and its window are controlled by the outer (big) closer. The inner closer (the smaller one) does not control a frame it removes the component inside the frame from the frame. This feature was introduced for the last frame (window) of OOo because it allows users to keep OOo in memory without keeping their last document open. //If i add the listener to the xcomponent, the queryClosing method is fired when either the internal document's close button or the frame's close button is clicked, but the document is not prevented from closing XCloseBroadcaster xc = (XCloseBroadcaster)xComponent; xc.addCloseListener(new CloseListener()); No, it should be: usually closing the document window would also close the document (means: destroy it) but this shouldn't happen if you register your listener and veto against closing. Of course you can't prevent the window from being closed here - in fact you can't do it at all as I have to admit. So here's what you should see in the listener you have registered at the document (component): - you get a queryClosing - if you throw a CloseVetoException you shouldn't get any further calls - if you don't object you should get a closing() as well as a disposing() notification. 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] MD5 signing of macros
Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote: Hi, How about md5 signing macros, and use them so that macros that are checked as OK, will allways be accepted without need to press enable macros on load. One could eaven stretch it futher and use PKI/gpg to accept company authorized macros. Maybe this is the wrong forum to post this in, Would issue tracker be a good place? You already can sign macros in OOo to exactly achieve this. Please find the menu item in the file menu of the Basic IDE. 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] throw exception from OOo Basic
Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote: Hi, How can I throw an exception from openoffice.org Basic? You can't. Basic does not support exceptions. For the case of close prevention we introduced a new service in OOo2.0.3 that takes over the job for you and deals with the exceptions. Currently I don't have some basic code at hand, only some C++ code using constructors that needs to be translated first. Will see if I can find some time. 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] prevent document closing
Adam Patacchiola wrote: So how do I prevent the inner document window from being closed? As I wrote already: Of course you can't prevent the window from being closed here - in fact you can't do it at all as I have to admit. Sorry for the bad news. 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] How to lock a text model
Julien Galand wrote: Hi to all, Does someone know a way to lock/unlock the model of a text document, that is, to make it temporarily read-only (the user cannot change its content) ? My purpose is to make sure that when my add-on is currently retrieving the text and manipulating it later, it has not changed in between. Because I assume OO to be fully multithread, it seems theoretically possible to me that the user (or any component other than mine) may modify the text while my add-on thread is working on it. OOo is not multithreaded, but it's possible that two threads can work on the same OOo model as it is not locked between API calls. This will change with our new Threading Framework in the future where code executed in any thread can obtain an exclusive lock for a defined span of time. ATM you can't lock a model against changes through its API, but you can prevent it from being modified through UI operations (dispatch calls). 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] How to force laying out of document
Kent Gibson wrote: Is there anyway I can force the laying out of the document. I have tried using the XRefreshable interface and xTextDocument.reformat() and but that still does not seem to really do the trick. This should be enough IMHO. It is also debatable if retrieving the LayoutSize property should be already enough to force a layout calculation before the call returns. Why waiting? Further calls to the same property will not redo the layout as Writer knows if layouting is necessary or not. 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] Calc: Switch DesignMode On/Off
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Laurent, how to switch Design Mode on/off via macro in Calc? did you try thisComponent.ApplyFormDesignMode = true|false This changes the initial form design mode, which is used when opening the document. For switching the current design mode, you need to dispatch the URL .uno:SwitchControlDesignMode to the document's frame. I don't have a code snippet at hand for this currently, anybody else? Switching off the design mode with the dispatch API is done in the following way: (quote signs to avoid line breaks) sub designmodeoff document = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame dispatcher = createUnoService(com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper) dim args(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue args(0).Name = SwitchControlDesignMode args(0).Value = false dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, .uno:SwitchControlDesignMode, , 0, args1()) end sub For switching it on you must change one line: args(0).Value = true If you want to toggle the design mode you execute the command without any parameters: dim emptyargs() dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, .uno:SwitchControlDesignMode, , 0, emptyargs()) The rest as above. 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] How does one sync within a template?
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:22 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: I have been combing through sources, api webpages trying to find the command or set of commands that will allow one to synchronize the contents (frames) of a page(s) with the contents of the first one. I have a special form that is not in the list that the wizard has but would like to duplicate how it is done. I would prefer OOoBASIC references but take what is available. TIA Perhaps my first question was too naive or too obscure to receive an answer so I will try again. I am attempting to create a template that will be used in the manner of one of the built-in labels. What I would like is to have my template synchronize in the same manner as the label. I am hoping that this feature is available programmatically but as I said in my first message, I cannot find the commands in the sources or the on-line documentation. So, assuming the synchronizing functions exist as I expect, can they be used in OOoBASIC? Unfortunately the expert for these questions is not available ATM, so I will do my very best. IIRC a labels document is nothing else than a document containing a lot of frames where all frame content links to the content of the first frame. By changing the first frame and forcing an update of all links the frames get synchronized. The command triggering the synchronizing is available at least through the dispatch API so it can be called on every document that has a view, even a hidden one would suffice. Perhaps you can create a simple labels document, save it and look into the XML file to verify my assumptions. If they are true it should be possible to use the same mechanism for other coupled frames in an arbitrary document also. 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] Calc: Switch DesignMode On/Off
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Mathias, Switching off the design mode with the dispatch API is done in the following way: (quote signs to avoid line breaks) sub designmodeoff document = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame dispatcher = createUnoService(com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper) dim args(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue args(0).Name = SwitchControlDesignMode args(0).Value = false dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, .uno:SwitchControlDesignMode, , 0, args1()) end sub For switching it on you must change one line: args(0).Value = true Didn't know we have *that* cool helpers meanwhile, thanks for pointing out! We have the DispatchHelper since we have macro recording, IIRC that was OOo1.1. :-) Ciao, 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] UNSANSWERED: a non-modal dialog
Berend Cornelius wrote: Hi Nocolai, you may also just set the window of your dialog visible. xDialog = xMultiServiceFactory.createInstance(com.sun.star.awt.UnoControlDialog); xWindow = (XWindow) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XWindow.class, xDialog); xWindow.setVisible(true); After that you have to capture your programm flow in a loop because it doesn't stop like when you use the execute() method in a modal dialog. Why should he create a loop? That's the most annoying thing in a modal dialog, why would you want to do the same with a modeless one? The better way is to keep a reference to the dialog and register a listener at it. The listener will tell you when the dialog was closed and the reference can be used to close the dialog when it is necessary or wanted. This could be e.g. when the whole view is closed or when the dialog has done its job. 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] Calc: Switch DesignMode On/Off
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Mathias, I'm a little bit unclear about an API for the design mode. First IMHO this isn't an API that you would expect to have at the model. It looks like something UI related. Maybe we can see this as a view setting? Where is it stored in the file format? It's definitely a view setting, so it would probably belong to the controller. It's not persistent at all. What's persistent is the setting which is reflected in the ApplyFormDesignMode property of the model: Whether or not the design mode should be initially on or off when the document has been loaded. OK, my memory was that this property reflects the last state of the DesignMode when the document was saved. If it's something different my memory obviously fooled me. :-) Besides that it looks strange that ApplyFormDesignMode is a model property. Is it stored in the content.xml or in the settings.xml? Ciao, 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] How to assign keyboard shortcut to add-on menu
Julien Galand wrote: Hi, I have read an answer by Mathias Bauer mailed on 11/18/2004 that it was not currently possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to an add-on menu line. Is it still impossible with OO 2.0 ? Even if the assignment is dynamic (not persistent), made by some API (typically by XAcceleratorConfiguration.setKeyEvent) and not by a XCU file ? Thank you if you can confirm this (in which case I feel a bit disapointed...). I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this feature wasn't important enough until now to attract development resources. Another reason is that we still are not done with our final design for the global accelerator configuration (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64717). 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] Tweaking the api for performance
Kent Gibson wrote: We render documents using the api. For the most part everything is great but performance. Are there any ways I can tweak a bit more peformance? Hard to give a specific answer for such a general question. :-) For example we do not use the database, calc or presenation components. Is there any way I can make sure these components are not slowing things down? If you don't use them they will not hurt you. It's code that is loaded only on demand. If I built OpenOffice myself, is there anyway I could optimise the build? In general I would say yes, but I don't know your requirements are. The documents we render are read only, is there any way I can make sure that things like UI event listeners aren't slowing things down, and if they are how can I avoid this penalty? How do you render the documents? And how do you load them? Can you point to specific API calls that seem to be slow? 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] Calc: Switch DesignMode On/Off
Frank Schönheit wrote: Hi Mathias, Besides that it looks strange that ApplyFormDesignMode is a model property. Is it stored in the content.xml or in the settings.xml? content.xml. Why is this strange? It's more on the level of, say, the background color, than, say, the zoom level: It's an aspect of the document which its designer describes how to look like. I consider it to be strange as it isn't relevant if you access the document by its API, it is something you only need if you view the document in an editor. Anyway, there's always a grey zone. Ciao, 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] pass com object instance to macro and call methods on it
Adam Patacchiola wrote: Can anyone help me...I posted my question in this thread a while ago: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=175288 and haven't been able to find an answer yet. You should explain more exactly what you want to achieve. I can't understand from where you get the COM object and how you call the basic macro. 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] iterating over text
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Naber wrote:
Hi,
I posted this on oooforum.org already
(http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=44933) but it wasn't
completly solved, so I need to try here again.
[...] The next problem is that I need to get the text and check it, then
navigate to given positions and select them (this is for my grammar
checker, LanguageTool). I can use the following code to navigate to given
positions, but it seems to count in a different way than the code above
(i.e. using XEnumerationAccess):
XTextCursor cursor = xTextDoc.getText().createTextCursor();
XParagraphCursor xParagraphCursor = (XParagraphCursor)
UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XParagraphCursor.class, cursor);
boolean hasNextParagraph = true;
while (hasNextParagraph) {
if (paraCount == paragraphNumber) {
xParagraphCursor.gotoStartOfParagraph(false);
xParagraphCursor.goRight(..., false);
}
hasNextParagraph = xParagraphCursor.gotoNextParagraph(false);
}
So when I find an error in, say, paragraph 10, characters 5 to 8, I
cannot use this code to navigate there because it seems to count tables
differently (namely it ignores them) and I end up in paragraph 11 instead
of 10 with the wrong text selected.
So how can I combine the first way of iterating over text
(XEnumerationAccess) with using the cursor to go right/left/select? In
other words, if I have an XEnumeration and XEnumerationAccess, how do I
get an XParagraphCursor for that?
I can't help with your problem, I only wanted to ask wether it is an
option for you to wait for our new Grammar Checking API that will not
require any text iteration from inside the Grammar Checker as it always
gets plain text as a source?
One of the reasons why we want to have a simplified is exactly the point
where you struggled: there is no common paragraph enumeration for *all*
text inside the document. So we will offer one.
Best regards,
Mathias
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Re: [api-dev] Mac/Linux/Windows problems?
Jimmy wrote: I'm developping a component for Writer which has been tested with Windows and works fine on different machines with different OpenOffice Versions starting from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4. Now that I'm almost finished with it, I wanted to test the tool on a Mac and on Linux. Surprisingly it failed and I don't really understand how this could happen. On Linux (Gentoo) with OO.org 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 it fails and on Mac (Intel/PowerPC) it fails with NeoOffice (OO.org 2.0.3). The main problem which I figured out is on startup where the JobExecutor initializes several things. The following code works with Windows but not with the other ones: xComponent = xDesktop.getCurrentComponent(); xDesktop has been initialized but getCurrentComponent() doesn't give anything back, it does so with Windows! (How is this even possible?) getCurrentComponent() is not reliable as it depends on the focus/activation handling on the particular OS. Unix systems are well known to handle focus changes asynchronously so you have a good chance that directly after starting the first window of OOo getCurrentComponent() will be empty. If you want to work reliably use APIs that return you the objects that you need. In your code: xController = xModel.getCurrentController(); This if fine, you have all you need: the model and the controller of the document you want to work on. xComponent = xDesktop.getCurrentComponent(); Why do you need this at all? Even on Windows it won't give you anything you don't have already. Or did I misunderstood your code? 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] Bug in C++ UNO binding of awt::KeyEvent ?
Julien Galand wrote:
// BUG (of binding ?) : Use KeyEvent.KeyChar, and not KeyEvent.KeyCode
!!
//
// Note:
// The same bug appears when retrieving a KeyEvent, such as
// XAcceleratorConfiguration.getKeyEventsByCommand(.uno:AddDirect).
// = the returned KeyEvents have KeyChar filled by what should be in
KeyCode.
I think it didn't work because you already have added something before
you used that call. And the remove/setKeyEvent calls have a bug or at
least a special behavior (see below).
//
keyEvent.KeyChar = awt::Key::F11;
keyEvent.Modifiers = awt::KeyModifier::MOD1; // Ctrl+F11
OUString commandURL = OUString::createFromAscii(.uno:AddDirect); //
this command is just as a test
try {
shortcutMgr-removeKeyEvent(keyEvent);
}
catch (NoSuchElementException ) {}
shortcutMgr-setKeyEvent(keyEvent, commandURL);
shortcutMgr-store();
There is a bug(or an unspecified feature?) in the accelerator
configuration: searching for a configuration by Event ignores KeyChar
and KeyFunc, it only uses KeyCode. This can lead to the strangest
effects. Especially your code will force the Accelerator Configuration
to grab the first binding that has MOD1 set and no KeyCode assigned,
whatever that means.
I recommend to do the following:
Make sure that you have the default configuration and use
getKeyEventsByCommand to see what you get. It should yield the same
result as in Basic.
If setKeyEvent still doesn't work with a correctly assigned KeyCode we
must debug it. This could be accelerated if you could deliver your C++
code as an installable and executable extension.
Best regards,
Mathias
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Re: [api-dev] iterating over text
Daniel Naber wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 08:03, Mathias Bauer wrote: I can't help with your problem, I only wanted to ask wether it is an option for you to wait for our new Grammar Checking API that will not require any text iteration from inside the Grammar Checker as it always gets plain text as a source? LanguageTool is already released and it has buggy OOo integration so I'd like to fix it now. Will the grammar checker API be in 2.1? Can you tell when the first binary snapshots with this feature will be available? If it's not too far in the future I might indeed give up working with the old API. Not, it won't be in 2.1 as the code freeze for this version will be in 2 weeks. I will ask the developers working on this about their idea about the release date or availability of snapshots. Ciao, 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] Bug in C++ UNO binding of awt::KeyEvent ?
Hi Julien, Julien Galand wrote: As a conclusion : - Either compile a C++ UNO component with the alignment compiler option set to 8 (or at least all SDK/UNO headers). - Or the Reference template structure definition should be wrapped with #pragma align(8). But the latter option is a fix in the SDK. Should I report this to someone ? Or should I forward this mail to another dedicated list ? As Stephan Bergmann is our expert for stuff like this and he already replied to one of your last mails I assume that he also will have something to say about your findings. Stephan currently is just drowned in mails after some days of vacation. :-) Best regards (and thanks for your efforts), 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] Mac/Linux/Windows problems?
Jimmy wrote: Mathias Bauer schrieb: Jimmy wrote: I'm developping a component for Writer which has been tested with Windows and works fine on different machines with different OpenOffice Versions starting from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4. Now that I'm almost finished with it, I wanted to test the tool on a Mac and on Linux. Surprisingly it failed and I don't really understand how this could happen. On Linux (Gentoo) with OO.org 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 it fails and on Mac (Intel/PowerPC) it fails with NeoOffice (OO.org 2.0.3). The main problem which I figured out is on startup where the JobExecutor initializes several things. The following code works with Windows but not with the other ones: xComponent = xDesktop.getCurrentComponent(); xDesktop has been initialized but getCurrentComponent() doesn't give anything back, it does so with Windows! (How is this even possible?) getCurrentComponent() is not reliable as it depends on the focus/activation handling on the particular OS. Unix systems are well known to handle focus changes asynchronously so you have a good chance that directly after starting the first window of OOo getCurrentComponent() will be empty. If you want to work reliably use APIs that return you the objects that you need. In your code: xController = xModel.getCurrentController(); This if fine, you have all you need: the model and the controller of the document you want to work on. xComponent = xDesktop.getCurrentComponent(); Why do you need this at all? Even on Windows it won't give you anything you don't have already. Or did I misunderstood your code? Best regards, Mathias So that would lead me to the following code in order to get the xComponent and the xFrame. xComponent = xModel; xFrame = xController.getFrame(); It did fix the problem although the behaviour with the frame handling/opening is still different. But I guess I'll have to rework my workflow then. Yes, you will face the same problems as we have internally in the application framework code. In a cross platform application the last you can rely on is focus and activation handling. Never use anything like current or active... if you can't cope with an empty or unexpected result. Code that just takes anything it gets here can use methods like these successfully but code that assumes to follow a defined workflow will fail using them. 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] Where is .xcu file information documented for a filter?
Ian Shields wrote: I've built the FlatXML filter on Linux and installed it. Now my Save as dialog has a choice of DevGuide FlatXML Write () as one of the types? Sorry I don't understand. Is this a question or a description of what you see? I've built another filter and used this one as a model, but I've run into a few questions: 1) Why the parentheses in the Save as dialog for FlatXML and my custom filter? Which parantheses? Could you describe exactly what you have seen? And please post the type and filter data for your filter. 2) Why no default type (I would have expected xml) 3) How should one code the .xcu file? In particular, how are the lines: prop oor:name=Data oor:type=xs:string value0,text/plain,,,txt,0/value /prop interpreted and what do the various fields mean? IIRC this is documented in the developer's guide. 4) Should a Java filter compiled and built on Linux using gcj (32-bit) install on a Windows XP box (mine doesn't) or does it need to be rebuilt on the target platform (thus destroying the advantage of using Java). I never used gcj - but doesn't it create a native library? Ciao, 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] Re: installing ooSetupConnectionURL through UNO package
Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote: Hi is it possible to make a uno package that can be installed or uninsulated with unopkg, and installs: prop oor:name=ooSetupConnectionURL oor:type=xs:string valuesocket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;/value /prop Under node oor:name=Office/ in the file: OfficePath/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu Or do something that gives the same effect. Yes, that's possible. Create a Setup.xcu files containing all necessary data (see below), put it into a zip file and install it with pckchk.exe. Or better (but more work) make it a .uno.pkg file and install it with unopkg.exe. In both cases you can decide to install it per user or for all users of that installation. Without guarantee (not tested) the Setup.xcu file should be: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? oor:component-data xmlns:oor=http://openoffice.org/2001/registry; xmlns:xs=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; oor:name=Setup oor:package=org.openoffice node oor:name=Office prop oor:name=ooSetupConnectionURL oor:type=xs:string prop oor:name= oor:type=xs:string valuesocket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;/value /prop /node /oor:component-data (qoute signs used as they prevent line wrapping.) Ciao, 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] Changing menus of a document in background
Tobias Krais wrote: Hi together again, I have one more question. I would like to change the menus in a document in the background. Up to now I can change menus for loaded documents in the foreground. Here is the code: -%- XPropertySet xps = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPropertySet.class, xDesktop.getCurrentFrame()); XLayoutManager xLayoutManager = (XLayoutManager) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XLayoutManager.class, xps.getPropertyValue(LayoutManager)); -%- With this code (getCurrentFrame) I can only get the XLayoutManager of the foreground Window. Background info: I wrote a java application that opens a document. Shortly after loading the document I start changing the menus. It can happen that meanwhile an other OO Document comes in foreground and I change the menus of this foreground window. How can I get the XLayoutManager of the XComponent I am working on with my application? Stefan gave the right answer. I just wanted to add that relying on which window is in the foreground is a bad idea in general. It's platform dependent (on Linux it even depends on the particular window manager installed) and doesn't make your application reliable. Stefan's suggestion will work always. To express it in short terms: use currentFrame only if you are fine with getting which frame whatsoever or even no frame at all when OOo is still subject to focus changes caused by the WM. Ciao, 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]
