[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/05/12 03:15, Kelly Holman a écrit : Hi Kerry, > When I go to tools -> macros -> organize macros -> python I can't > create or edit scripts. The buttons are grayed out. It does have a few sample > scripts, which I can run. > There is no built-in python editor in LibreOffice. If you want

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread NoOp
On 5/17/2012 12:10 PM, steelej wrote: > > NoOp wrote ... >> 1.7.0_04 works for me w/WinXP,W7, and linux. The WinXP is running in >> VMWare, the W7 is running from a partition. Can you be a little more >> specific as to what is not working? >> >> >> When I select Java 1.7 as the runtime environme

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread NoOp
On 5/17/2012 4:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) I think the last official release was a 6, possibly the 6u31. > None of the 7s have made it to full official release. You think? Did you not bother to check the links that I provided? Here's a few more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] No QuickStarter? (Linux)

2012-05-17 Thread minhsien0330
2012/5/18 minhsien0330 > After I opened Lobreoffice, I found nowhere to enable the QuickStarter. > (Tools→Options→LibreOffice→View→There is no QuickStarter option) > Sorry, It's Tools→Options→LibreOffice→"Memory" (not "View") I found no QuickStarter option in "Memory". Best Regards, -- For un

[libreoffice-users] No QuickStarter? (Linux)

2012-05-17 Thread minhsien0330
Dear all: I downloaded and installed the deb packages from homepage of LibreOffice. (http://www.libreoffice.org/download/) After I opened Lobreoffice, I found nowhere to enable the QuickStarter. (Tools→Options→LibreOffice→View→There is no QuickStarter option) Anybody know how to get it? Thanks a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.05.2012 23:05, Kelly Holman wrote: Thanks Andreas. You may be right about running a perl script under windows. I have the installation but haven't used it yet. It's a long time since I've done any real programming. In the meantime, I think I've found another way that would work more seamle

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.05.2012 22:31, Andreas Säger wrote: Anyhow, on my Linux system the following Basic macro ... Sub Main x = shell("~/bin/number2words.pl",0,"123") End Sub ... executes number2words.pl in no visible window and with argument 123. The output "one hundred twenty three" is dumped to the shell f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Kelly Holman
Thanks Andreas. You may be right about running a perl script under windows. I have the installation but haven't used it yet. It's a long time since I've done any real programming. In the meantime, I think I've found another way that would work more seamlessly -- BeanShell can access the file syste

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.05.2012 21:01, Kelly Holman wrote: Sorry, I didn't mean to be unclear. There are several ways I could get the result of the perl script: an array of strings, a single string I would parse, or writing it to a file as you suggest. That part doesn't matter. All I need to know is whether I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] two page counts

2012-05-17 Thread Jay Lozier
Florent, On 05/17/2012 02:33 PM, Florent Guiliani wrote: > Hello LibreOffice users, > > Using writer, I merged two documents into a single one in order to get > the cross-references working between the two. It is now a single > document from the Writer point of view. However from a 'logical' point

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread steelej
NoOp wrote > > On 05/15/2012 03:09 PM, steelej wrote: >> I have been a happy user of LO for a long time but have just started to >> explore Base. >> >> I have been unable to get Base to work with the latest JRE on Windows >> Vista >> or on W7. When I select this version in the Java options it fa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Kelly Holman
Sorry, I didn't mean to be unclear. There are several ways I could get the result of the perl script: an array of strings, a single string I would parse, or writing it to a file as you suggest. That part doesn't matter. All I need to know is whether I can call the perl script from within LO, using

[libreoffice-users] two page counts

2012-05-17 Thread Florent Guiliani
Hello LibreOffice users, Using writer, I merged two documents into a single one in order to get the cross-references working between the two. It is now a single document from the Writer point of view. However from a 'logical' point of view, there's still two documents. The first pages belongs to t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)I thought they recommended whichever they think you don't have in order to force you into buying a new one that you don't really need?  Lol, yes i am joking around but it often seems that way to me.  It's good be Free of that.   Regards fromTom :) --- On Thu, 17/5/12, Tanstaafl wrote: From

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-17 9:48 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: It is a little astonishing and worrying to read that LibreO is a 32-bit application under any Windows-OS but I have seen no info about LibreO being only 32-bits - not 64 bits nor 32/64 bits. I have been told that a 64-bit machine needs 64-bits softwa

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Redirect the output to a file and link the file content? How can I tell without the faintest idea about the purpose nor the exact flavour of data? Once upon a time there used to be some Perl module for UNO. Being a Perl programmer you may even manipulate the XML "source code" of an ODF document. -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Kelly Holman
Thank you Andreas! I just need to do one little thing. As an alternative to figuring out all about python, is there any way to call a perl script (already written) from within LibreOffice? The script wouldn't need to do anything with Office, just return a string or array. Thanks! On 5/17/12, An

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.05.2012 15:48, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Dear LibreO folks out there, In two of his mails Andreas Säger says >> "In any case it -- (Java 1.7) -- has to be 32 bit because under Windows the office (LibreOffice) is a 32 bit application. " >> "The 32/64 Java bits have to match with the LibreOffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Don't worry! 32bit apps run on 64bit systems perfectly well.  It is the other way around that would be a problem.  Think of a pint glass.  A full pint fits in fine.  Drink a bit and the half pint fits in fine too.  The other way around would not work!  A half-pint glass would not hold a f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Dear LibreO folks out there, In two of his mails Andreas Säger says >>"In any case it -- (Java 1.7) -- has to be 32 bit because under Windows the office (LibreOffice) is a 32 bit application. " >>"The 32/64 Java bits have to match with the LibreOffice bits which means 32 bit on all Windo

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.05.2012 13:04, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahhh, thanks Andreas! Do text-editors such as Gedit, Kate, SciTe count as IDEs or are IDEs a tad more technical? Regards from Tom :) The minimum Swiss knife for Python macros consists of Writer and a shell. When I need to fix Python on a Windows

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.05.2012 02:32, NoOp wrote: Perhaps if you would include some quotation from the post others could understand what you are replying to. I see nothing in the OP that indicates 'steelej' was using a 64 bit version. You are right. Java 1.7 works well with LibO 3.5. I tested with external

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java 1.7 - does not work

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the last official release was a 6, possibly the 6u31.  None of the 7s have made it to full official release.  At least 1 of them was apparently compromised out-in-the-wild when it reached release-candidate status.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Thu, 17/5/12, NoOp wrote: From: No

Re: [libreoffice-users] Startup positioning problem with LO 3.5.2.2

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I tend to find most things open on the monitor i happen to be using when i try to open the thing.  A few things almost always go to the primary monitor.  I don't know if there is a script or something in LO's User Profile that decides where to open things?  It would be interesting to know

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahhh, thanks Andreas!  Do text-editors such as Gedit, Kate, SciTe count as IDEs or are IDEs a tad more technical? Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 17/5/12, Andreas Säger wrote: From: Andreas Säger Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script? To: users@global.libreoffice.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.05.2012 03:15, Kelly Holman wrote: When I go to tools -> macros -> organize macros -> python I can't create or edit scripts. The buttons are grayed out. It does have a few sample scripts, which I can run. I went to the extension manager and found "script provider for python" so ap

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't create python script?

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do you have to "enable experimental features? Tools - Options - General (2nd item i think) Then bottom of the box is "Enable experimental features".  There are a few odd things that are not really experimental that seem to be disabled without that.  There is better help in the official doc