Re: [api-dev] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!

2006-04-19 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi Anders, since noone else does I'll try to help a little. Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2006, 09:36 +0200 schrieb Anders Johansen: I spent about two man-months trying to puzzle out how to interface with OOo from Delphi or BCB. Conclusion: If it works, the documentations is out of date, and

Re: [api-dev] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!

2006-04-18 Thread Anders Johansen
Bump! ...and thereby hangs a tale... First time I looked into this was several years ago. My users—about a thousand Danish schools—were starting to look into Ooo as a replacement for MS Office, but needed interoperability with all the little programs that they /have/ to use. So they came

Re: [api-dev] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!

2006-04-06 Thread Anders Johansen
Bump! Any takers? As mentioned, I am NOT able to do this on my own - the start-up time needed to get sufficiently acquainted with OOo development is simply too extensive for me. I will however appreciate a solution, and am quite willing (and able) to pay for it if need be. Sincerely, Anders

Re: [api-dev] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!

2006-03-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
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

Re: [api-dev] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!

2006-03-28 Thread Anders Johansen
Den 27/03/2006 kl. 18.43 skrev Mathias Bauer: Anders Johansen wrote: 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

Re: [api-dev] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!

2006-03-26 Thread Anders Johansen
Den 23/03/2006 kl. 19.25 skrev Mathias Bauer: We have an API for cursor travelling, but I don't understand how a single integer value can describe a cursor position. Can you explain? What is the reference point for your position? OK. ^ is cursor ^hello -- pos == 0 h^ello -- pos == 1

[api-dev] Re: [dev] Integrating external program with OOo on Windows - request for assistance!

2006-03-23 Thread Anders S. Johansen
OK, have not ahd much luck posting top [EMAIL PROTECTED], so am trying again... Quoting Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Hide Quoted Text] Anders S. Johansen wrote: Our goal is to implement a few functions/methods, preferably encapsulated in an object (but not necessarily) that will allow