Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Hi Marc, The proper macro has an additional oPipe.closeOutput right after writing the document into the pipe, but before passing the pipe to setBinaryStream. That does work. :) Fine. I assume blocking on giving the exact size as a limit did for the same reason, waiting for the EOF. Yes. Well, it does only partly. I succeeded in writing to JDBC connected databases, using ODBC didn't do, blocking as before. Fixed in CWS dba31c (too lazy to write a dedicated issue). (Strictly, the implementation of setBinaryStream for the dBase driver is broken, as it does *not* do what your macro requests it to do.) Because it doesn't start reading on a stream that hasn't finished getting all data from the writing end? Yes. Thanks for investigating and finding a solution, You're welcome. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Am Donnerstag, den 18.09.2008, 13:15 +0200 schrieb Frank Schönheit: The proper macro has an additional oPipe.closeOutput right after writing the document into the pipe, but before passing the pipe to setBinaryStream. That does work. :) I assume blocking on giving the exact size as a limit did for the same reason, waiting for the EOF. Well, it does only partly. I succeeded in writing to JDBC connected databases, using ODBC didn't do, blocking as before. But this clearly is a works for me-remark currently. (Strictly, the implementation of setBinaryStream for the dBase driver is broken, as it does *not* do what your macro requests it to do.) Because it doesn't start reading on a stream that hasn't finished getting all data from the writing end? Thanks for investigating and finding a solution, Marc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Hi Marc, I was trying to use a css.io.Pipe to connect the two active data sources (doc.storeToUrl and XParameter.setBinaryStream). Using dbase I succeeded in writing othe train to ut a doc this way, for mysql or hsql the office hangs. Now known as issue 94027, targeted to 3.1. Now resolved as INVALID, after I debugged a little bit into it ... Look into the issue for a detailed reasoning why your sample macro is broken, and OOo does exactly what you requested it to do. The proper macro has an additional oPipe.closeOutput right after writing the document into the pipe, but before passing the pipe to setBinaryStream. (Strictly, the implementation of setBinaryStream for the dBase driver is broken, as it does *not* do what your macro requests it to do.) Ciao Frank -- Frank Schönheit StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Base [EMAIL PROTECTED]+49 40 23 646 663 / +3 Sun Microsystems Germany Hamburg, Nagelsweg 55 -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Hi Marc, I hope your workload will lower soon. In fact the statement I'll file an issue ... is part of the citation. ;) Oh ... which also means the other part of the citation wasn't mine - doh, I knew that was too profound for that ... But I'd take that task if I am sure what to write. Thanks. Is it a limit or a lenght for: Form.Columns.getByName().setBinarySream() aka ResultSet.get/setAnything.setBinaryStream() Form.Columns.getByName().updateBinaryStream() aka ResultSet.get/setAnything.updateBinaryStream() css.sdbc.XParameter.setBinaryStream() ? I'd say it should be a limit for all of those. And I'll try again: Does the last of those three (or all at best) need a stream implementing css.io.XSeekable besides the XInputStream/XOutputSream interface? None of those should need it. All implementations I found try to read as much bytes as indicated by the Length parameter. Now that I looked up the implementations, again ... most of them even seem to silently ignore (implicitly, by using XInputStream::readBytes, which also does so) when there were less bytes than specified. The only exception is the ODBC bridge, whose setBinaryStream in fact throws an exception if it cannot read the specified number. The same is true for the ComponentLoader (not Documentloader) for input streams, which is why people have to implement a stream wrapper offering both interfaces (XInputStream XSeekable). Since my experiments handing over an input stream to a XParameter are all blocking except when a dbase db is used as backend this could be the problem. Or the length argument is biting back ... What exactly do you mean with are all blocking? Does the call not return? Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Hello Frank, Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 10:24 +0200 schrieb Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany: Hi Marc, I hope your workload will lower soon. In fact the statement I'll file an issue ... is part of the citation. ;) Oh ... which also means the other part of the citation wasn't mine - doh, I knew that was too profound for that ... But I'd take that task if I am sure what to write. Thanks. Is it a limit or a lenght for: Form.Columns.getByName().setBinarySream() aka ResultSet.get/setAnything.setBinaryStream() Form.Columns.getByName().updateBinaryStream() aka ResultSet.get/setAnything.updateBinaryStream() css.sdbc.XParameter.setBinaryStream() ? I'd say it should be a limit for all of those. Okay. And I'll try again: Does the last of those three (or all at best) need a stream implementing css.io.XSeekable besides the XInputStream/XOutputSream interface? None of those should need it. All implementations I found try to read as much bytes as indicated by the Length parameter. Now that I looked up the implementations, again ... most of them even seem to silently ignore (implicitly, by using XInputStream::readBytes, which also does so) when there were less bytes than specified. The only exception is the ODBC bridge, whose setBinaryStream in fact throws an exception if it cannot read the specified number. The same is true for the ComponentLoader (not Documentloader) for input streams, which is why people have to implement a stream wrapper offering both interfaces (XInputStream XSeekable). Since my experiments handing over an input stream to a XParameter are all blocking except when a dbase db is used as backend this could be the problem. Or the length argument is biting back ... What exactly do you mean with are all blocking? Does the call not return? When I use XParameter.setBinaryStream() the Office goes into no display any more-mode. Using top on FreeBSD I can see the process being in in poll-mode. Looks like there is some synchronization issue or I'm doing something wrongly. On Win32 the behaviour is the same, in all cases there is no CPU load, the office only doesn't do anything including refreshing the display. I was trying to use a css.io.Pipe to connect the two active data sources (doc.storeToUrl and XParameter.setBinaryStream). Using dbase I succeeded in writing othe train to ut a doc this way, for mysql or hsql the office hangs. See some code below, maybe the limit-argument is the problem, which I set to 65536 as a limit and the document was anytime smaller than that on storage (~30kB). code ... sql = INSERT INTO pieces (ID, piece) VALUES (?, ?) oPStatement = aConnection.prepareStatement( sql ) oPStatement.setInt(1, aID) dim Args(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue oPipe = CreateUNOService(com.sun.star.io.Pipe) Args(0).Name = OutputStream Args(0).Value = oPipe ' s.u. ' order IS IMPORTANT !!! for dbase ... tmpDoc.storeToUrl(private:stream, Args()) ' never-come-back-call ... oPStatement.setBinaryStream(2, oPipe, 65536) oPStatement.executeUpdate() /code Marc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Hi Marc, Using dbase I succeeded in writing othe train to ut a doc this way, for mysql or hsql the office hangs. See some code below, maybe the limit-argument is the problem, which I set to 65536 as a limit and the document was anytime smaller than that on storage (~30kB). it might ... The length argument is used for XInputStream.readBytes (in some cases, for XInputStream.readSomeBytes, which I consider a bug), and though the API definition says the method should return in case of EOF, there might be a bug somewhere that it blocks in this case. code ... sql = INSERT INTO pieces (ID, piece) VALUES (?, ?) oPStatement = aConnection.prepareStatement( sql ) oPStatement.setInt(1, aID) dim Args(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue oPipe = CreateUNOService(com.sun.star.io.Pipe) Args(0).Name = OutputStream Args(0).Value = oPipe ' s.u. ' order IS IMPORTANT !!! for dbase ... tmpDoc.storeToUrl(private:stream, Args()) ' never-come-back-call ... oPStatement.setBinaryStream(2, oPipe, 65536) oPStatement.executeUpdate() /code Will try to reproduce. As always, an issue is highly welcome, and might speed up things :) Thanks Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Hi Marc, This *may* be something like the documentation bug there was talk about once upon a time. You wrote: cite Hi Matthias, The only conclusion I can draw from such an inconsistent API is that any implementation that claims to be usable can only ignore the 'Length' argument. I wrote that, really? Sounds like I knew what I was talking about back then :) Probably only 'setBinaryStream()' documentation (and implementation?) need to be fixed to clarify 'Length' as 'Limit'. I fully agree, and I'll file an issue to adjust the documentation as well as the implementations. Thanks. If you could refer to this old discussion and the reasoning therein, this could be helpful. I in fact looked up the implementation before I answered to Fernand, and we use the length as length currently, not as limit. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Fernand, A related question: Can you give me some hints to produce a minimal code (maybe no code at all :-) )to put images out of a database into a writerdoc who is the base document to run a mailmerge using the beamer(F4) In general, the database column is able to provide its content as stream (getBinaryStream, being an XInputStream). Of course you could write this to a file (though I do not know the API for this). Whether it's possible to directly put the binary content into a text doc - not sure, perhaps the css.graphic API has something for it. I suggest asking this in detail in [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your main problem is how to get the column which supplies the binary stream, then I might be able to help - if you tell me somewhat more about your setup. Frank, thanks for the reply but in the mean time we decided to store the URL's in the datbase and not the dinary data. But storing formated text into a database field is a related problem, and Marc Santhof replied as follows: Use doc.StoreToUrl() using a stream as target and connect that stream object to the db field (on a prepared statement get/setBinaryStream() IIRC). I'm sure *Frank* can help with the details of connecting a stream to a database column ... Can you help me Frank :-) Greetz Fernand Ciao Frank - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Hi Andrew, My expectation is that most images will be larger than the control size. I am scanning receipts so that I can extract the image from the database and print it if I require warranty repair on something. Okay, in this case the Scale property in its current appearance doesn't help you. PS: Alternatively ... write a small patch which enables the control to scale the image by keeping its ratio :). Seriously: Is anybody aware of an RFE for this? I was considering creating one... Would it help your considerations if I additionally encourage you to do so? :) I have a patch running which changes the Scale property from Yes/No to No/Keep Ratio/Fit to Size, which I could use for this. What's still missing is the file format change, which unfortunately also requires a file format specification fragment to be submitted to OASIS ... :-\ (Ah, those lucky times where we justed dumped some bits into some proprietary binary file format ... :) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hello Andrew, Insert an image control into a form and associate the control to a field in the database. The image control has a specific size. If the control displays an image with a different aspect ratio, then the image may be severely distorted. Any thoughts on how to avoid this? Set the Scale image property to no and ensure all images in the DB are smaller than the control size. I was NOT aware of this property... My expectation is that most images will be larger than the control size. I am scanning receipts so that I can extract the image from the database and print it if I require warranty repair on something. (Sorry if this is a dumb hint. You didn't mention whether you knew the property, so I thought I mention it.) I will gladly accept numerous dumb hints, because every now and then, one hits the jackpot! Ciao Frank PS: Alternatively ... write a small patch which enables the control to scale the image by keeping its ratio :). Seriously: Is anybody aware of an RFE for this? I was considering creating one... -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Fernand Vanrie wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Hi Andrew I have some questions Insert an image control into a form and associate the control to a field in the database. Is the Image datafile stored in the database or is het just the URL of the image I store the image in the database. The image control has a specific size. If the control displays an image with a different aspect ratio, then the image may be severely distorted. In the Image control we need just a sort of representation of the image. This represenation could be resised = ( easy to do) or croped =(more complicated in OO) I would not change the image, just the control size. Any thoughts on how to avoid this? Handling with a macro who is resising or cropping :-) Yes, good point. When I create the control, I set the size and aspect ration of the control. I could use a macro to change the size of the control so that the aspect ration was the same as the image. The macro would need to be called when a new image was displayed. Not certain off hand which events I would need to catch, but it sure seems like a lot of work. greetz Fernand Thanks for the reply! -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio
Insert an image control into a form and associate the control to a field in the database. The image control has a specific size. If the control displays an image with a different aspect ratio, then the image may be severely distorted. Any thoughts on how to avoid this? My primary thought is that I would write a macro that resizes the image control based on the aspect ratio of the currently displayed image. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
