Thank you so much andre, I will see if we can use this! mike On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03.10.2013 11:37, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >>> From: Andre Fischer [mailto:awf....@gmail.com] >>>> >>>> It took a long time but here is my example, a simple search >>> >>> for writer. >>> >>> That's OK. I just came back from my vacation and am now >>> catching up on >>> emails. >>> >>>> Can you please help me now? >>> >>> I will try. Can you tell me, what the extension does and how >>> you want >>> it to work and look? >> >> The extension function is very simple, there is a dialog with two text >> fields to >> enter a search string and a replacement text, and two buttons to start >> searching >> or replacing. The extension is for writer. >> >> So not much function but it is indeed primarily an example of integration >> in the >> sidebar >> >> This dialogue should now be implemented, he works as a sidebar, so: >> >> 2 text fields for entering >> 4 Label Fields >> 2 buttons to launch two Basic Macros >> > > I was somewhat but not entirely successful in turning your BASIC script into > a sidebar panel. > > I have created an Eclipse project of the sidebar panel [1]. Run the 'oxt' > target of the Ant build file to create the file SidebarBasicPanelDemo.oxt in > the dist/ directory. Install this extension in a 4.* OpenOffice and > restart. Now you should see in the sidebar tab bar a new entry with a gear > icon. Click on it to swtich to the demo panel. > > What works is that the dialog is displayed as expected. Callbacks into the > BASIC script work also. > > What does not work is that the BASIC script can not access the dialog for eg > retrieval of the search strings. The reason for that is that the dialog is > not created from the script in the 'Start_dialog' function but on the Java > side of the implementation. I tried to call from Java into BASIC with the > dialog object. The call works, but I did not get the public BASIC variable > 'ts_dialog' to work. When you click on the 'Suche Nächsten' button then the > ts_dialog value is empty again. > > But maybe this is a good thing, because every document has its own side bar > and its own BASIC dialog. Using a single global variable to hold the dialog > would not work. As I do not know OpenOffice BASIC well enough to know if > and how object orientation works, I did not try to fix this. > I also do not know how to change the event callbacks to pass parameters to > the BASIC script. Without parameters, your BASIC script does not know from > which instance of the dialog it has been called and thus could not retrieve > the search string, even if it could access the dialogs. > > Using the BASIC dialog but do the implementation in Java would be much > easier and more reliable. > > Best regards, > > Andre > > > [1] http://people.apache.org/~af/SidebarBasicDemo.zip > > >> >> Greetings, >> Jörg >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
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