[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[ptoye]

Andreas,

Thanks again. Regina's comment answered my questions. I'm not sure why you say 
it's best to avoid the "Standard" library, though. I tend to store my dialogues 
and macros within the document, as they're usually specific to the document. 
After all, a dialogue for updating my wines database would be pretty silly in 
my account spreadsheet :-)

Best regards,

Peter
mailto:l...@ptoye.com
www.ptoye.com

-
Saturday, January 7, 2017, 3:53:02 PM, you wrote:


Importing/exporting Basic modules and dialogs is easy when you do NOT store 
everything in libraries named "Standard". Use the organizer to create a library 
with a distinct project name within a template, document or in global container 
"My Macros" 
Move dialogs and code modules into the library. 
Now you can create a simple macro extension from that library. There is an 
[Export] button on the "Libraries" tab of the organizer which generates a most 
simple oxt. 
You can also import libraries directly from documents or from library 
directories. There is an [Import] button on the same tab. You may also import 
libraries from extracted extensions. 


If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204605.html
To unsubscribe from Problems exporting and importing a dialogue, click here.
NAML



-
Peter
--
View this message in context: 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204610.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[Andreas Säger]

Importing/exporting Basic modules and dialogs is easy when you do NOT store
everything in libraries named "Standard". Use the organizer to create a
library with a distinct project name within a template, document or in
global container "My Macros"
Move dialogs and code modules into the library.
Now you can create a simple macro extension from that library. There is an
[Export] button on the "Libraries" tab of the organizer which generates a
most simple oxt.
You can also import libraries directly from documents or from library
directories. There is an [Import] button on the same tab. You may also
import libraries from extracted extensions.



--
View this message in context: 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204605.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[gordon cooper]

Peter,

 Understood. Thanks.

Gordon.


On 04/01/17 23:22, ptoye wrote:

Gordon,

I am referring specifically to a Dialog(ue), not to text within a file.



-
Peter
--
View this message in context: 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204319.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.




--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[ptoye]

Regina,

See my comments below.

Best regards, and a successful new year,

Peter
mailto:l...@ptoye.com
www.ptoye.com

-
Wednesday, January 4, 2017, 12:31:35 AM, you wrote:


Hi Peter, 

ptoye schrieb: 
> I wanted to transfer a dialogue from a text document to the live version. So 
> I went into the test doc "organise dialogs|Edit" window and exported the 
> dialogue, which was called "OneOff" 

How do you make it 'called "OneOff"'? 
Originally I called it "One-Off" when I first created it with the 
Tools|Macros|Organise Dialogues menu. Later I changed it to "OneOff" by 
clicking on its name in the macro organiser window.


, to a file. Went into the live version, 
> found that I had to edit a dummy dialogue before I could import the saved 
> one, 

The document needs to have a library (likely 'Standard') and at least 
one module. Then you have an 'Import Dialog' in the toolbar in the 
module in the IDE. Because you need the module anyway for the macros to 
execute the dialog, first generate the module and then insert the dialog. 
I admit that I hadn't noticed that the "Import Dialogue" was available in the 
macro editor as well as the Dialogue Editor.


  imported the file. And found that the new dialogue was called 
> "One-Off", which had been its name some days ago.  I looked at the exported 
> .xdl file and there's a section saying   So I have 2 questions/comments: 
> 
> 1) Why is the imported file getting a different name? Alternatively, why has 
> the exported file got an out-of-date ID? 

In my tests it gets the name of the tab in the Basic-IDE as value of the 
attribute 'dlg:id' and on import this value is used in the Basic-IDE as 
tab name. If such tab already exists, you get the option to rename or 
replace.
So it seems that the dlg:id attribute isn't changed when the name is changed. 
This looks like a bug to me (not an important one).


> 
> 2) Is there a way of importing a dialogue without having to edit a dummy 
> dialogue? 

See above, you need a module. 


BTW, I find is useful to have an own toolbar for macros. I use the commands 
'Edit Macros' = .uno:BasicIDEAppear (from category Application) and name 
it 'IDE'. 
'LibreOffice Basic' = .uno:MacroOrganizer (from category BASIC) and name 
it 'Run' 
'LibreOffice Basic Macro Organizer' = .uno:MacroOrganizer (fro, category 
BASIC) and name it 'Organize' 
That make access quicker than via Tools > Macros. 
Thanks - I'll try this.


Kind regards 
Regina 




-
Peter
--
View this message in context: 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204320.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[ptoye]

Gordon,

I am referring specifically to a Dialog(ue), not to text within a file.



-
Peter
--
View this message in context: 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204319.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[ptoye]

Gabriele,

A Dialogue (or Dialog if you like the US spelling) is a feature of Libre
Office which does not appear to be documented anywhere in the User Guides.
It allows you to display a window with controls (much like a form) so that
the user can interact with the document at runtime. Look in the LO help
files under "Macros and programming|Guides" where there is some (but not a
lot of) useful information.

I use a dialogue in Calc to allow the user to enter values which, when an
"OK" button is pressed, are entered into the correct cells in a spreadsheet
using macro code in LO Basic. But it's not confined to Calc - you can write
a dialogue in any LO application.

HTH



-
Peter
--
View this message in context: 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204318.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[gordon cooper]

I am with Gabriele, do not understand the problem.

Here, We are working with moderately sized documents in several
languages. The Copy and Paste works every time. Can copy a
technical manual, with up to 170 A4 pages and nearly 100 images,
and it pastes correctly.   Slightly more difficult is pasting from an
HTML document. Everything behaves, and the format is retained,
except the internal linking for the Table of Contents. This is no great
problem. Libre Office has the function to create a new Table Of
Contents linked to the appropriate pages in the resulting  .odt.

All very easy.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.


On 04/01/17 12:07, Gabriele Ponzo wrote:

What do you mean with Dialogue?

I can't understand what are you talking about :(

It may be a feature unknown to me...

Il 3 gen 2017 5:16 PM, "ptoye"  ha scritto:

I don't think you can simply copy and paste an entire dialogue. I tried it
and it didn't work.



-
Peter
--
View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/
Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204267.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-
unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
deleted




--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[Gabriele Ponzo]

What do you mean with Dialogue?

I can't understand what are you talking about :(

It may be a feature unknown to me...

Il 3 gen 2017 5:16 PM, "ptoye"  ha scritto:

I don't think you can simply copy and paste an entire dialogue. I tried it
and it didn't work.



-
Peter
--
View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/
Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204267.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-
unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
deleted

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Re [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[anne-ology]

   Just hold CTRL key, or the left mouse key, & keep scrolling down; or
choose 'select all' from the menu  ;-)



From: ptoye <l...@ptoye.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:15 AM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


I don't think you can simply copy and paste an entire dialogue. I tried it
and it didn't work.


-
Peter

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

[ptoye]

I don't think you can simply copy and paste an entire dialogue. I tried it
and it didn't work.



-
Peter
--
View this message in context: 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Problems-exporting-and-importing-a-dialogue-tp4204239p4204267.html
Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted