Hi! On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Ocke Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Our extension is a UNO component and its output is a vector drawing. >> Do you think that with rptchart02 Sun Report Builder would now be able >> to accomodate such an extension? I got my hopes high, because charts >> are similar to some extent, but from looking at the source code I find >> that it is very specific to charts and not easily extended to other >> UNO components. > > Yes it should work. When you create a new function like for example > Author-function.java and you put the component context in the same list as > the AUTHOR keyword, you can access it in your function. Your function has to > do the same what it does in the ImageProducer. The functions gets evaluated > and the result will be send to the image producer. So I guess 100 lines of > code :-) But may be one or more things have to be done which we currently > don't see. I would start by search for Author and Title in Java and in > properties files. Oh, I've missed these! Thanks a lot, I can get started now! >> In fact I do not understand why Sun Report Builder writes the XML >> directly when generating the report instead of using UNO to build and >> save a document. I think that the current approach is rather rigid and >> at the same time requires lots of extra effort on your part (writing >> more and more complex XML generators). What was the reason for this >> approach? > > It should be possible to generate many reports at a time. Where the > resulting documents don't need to be loaded. Another reason is speed ;-) Oh, I understand now. Thanks for all the help! Best regards, Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
