This ooRexx program creates a simpress presentation and then runs/starts it.
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AOO_simpress_present.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with
ooRexx
Links: <https://OpenOffice.org>
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge>
<https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php>
<https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html>
Using OLE create a new simpress presentation about REXX and ooRexx and then
display it as a presentation. Demonstrates how to use enumeration to
enumerate paragraphs of a text and query their 'NumberingLevel' property.
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/* create a presentation, then start it */
serviceManager = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
desktop = serviceManager~createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
noProps = .array~new /* empty array (no properties) */
document = desktop~loadComponentFromURL('private:factory/simpress',
'_blank', 0, noProps)
drawPages = document~getDrawPages -- get DrawPages
-- first page
drawPage=drawPages~getByIndex(0) -- get first (empty) page
drawPage~setPropertyValue("Layout", 0) -- "Title Slide"
title = "ooRexx"
shape = drawPage~getByIndex(0) -- get first shape (title)
shape~setString(title)
shape = drawPage~getByIndex(1) -- get second shape (subtitle)
cursor = shape~createTextCursor -- get XTextCursor
cr="0d"x
shape~insertString(cursor,"Open Object Rexx (ooRexx)"cr, .false)
textRange=shape~getEnd -- get a XTextRange
textRange~setPropertyValue("CharHeight", 15) -- use 15 pixel height
info="(Presentation created:" .dateTime~new")"
textRange~setString(info) -- set it to this string
-- add a second page
drawPage=drawPages~~insertNewByIndex(1)~getByIndex(1) -- insert at end, get
access
drawPage~setPropertyValue("Layout", 1) -- "Title Content"
drawPage~getByIndex(0)~setString("Open Object Rexx (ooRexx)") -- first shape
text=drawPage~getByIndex(1) -- get second shape (listing)
-- add string, supply level
call addItem text, "REXX (IBM)", 0
call addItem text, "First released in 1979 for IBM mainframes", 1
call addItem text, "Object REXX (IBM)", 0
call addItem text, "Object-oriented successor to REXX", 1
call addItem text, "First released in 1994 with IBM's OS/2 Warp", 1
call addItem text, "Negotiations about open-sourcing with RexxLA", 1
call addItem text, "Rexx Language Association (www.RexxLA.org)", 2
call addItem text, "Source code handed over to RexxLA in 2003", 2
call addItem text, "Open Object Rexx (ooRexx by RexxLA)", 0
call addItem text, "First released in 2004 by RexxLA", 1, .false
document~setModified(.false) -- inhibit save-as popup
/* OOo OLE interface does not answer hasOleMethod('start') with .true
therefore forcing "start" to be dispatched to Windows */
document~getPresentation~dispatch("start") -- start presentation
say "double-check: dump NumberingLevel of each text paragraph:"
call dumpItems text -- demonstrates enumerating listing
text
::routine addItem -- adds string at the given (0-based
outline) level
use arg xText, string, level, bNewParagraph=.true
xTR=xText~getEnd -- get XTextRange
xTR~setPropertyValue("NumberingLevel",level) -- set XTextRange level
xTR~setString(string) -- set string
if bNewParagraph=.true then -- add new paragraph
xTR~getEnd~setString("0a"x) -- add linefeed character -> new paragraph
::routine dumpItems -- show level and string from XText
use arg xText
enum=xText~createEnumeration -- enumerate paragraphs
do i=1 while enum~hasMoreElements
xtr=enum~nextElement -- we need XTextRange's string & properties
nl=xtr~getPropertyValue("NumberingLevel")
say " item #" i": NumberingLevel="pp(nl) pp(xtr~getString)
end
return
pp: -- "pretty print", internal routine: return argument enclosed in square
brackets
return "["arg(1)"]"
HTH
---rony
P.S.: The short paper at <https://epub.wu.ac.at/8118/> introduces ooRexx briefly in ten pages, home
of Rexx based technologies is the non-profit SIG "Rexx Language Association" at
<https://www.RexxLA.org>.
