You can do an add-on that open a socket and read the data from your application. There are some tutorials on doing this on the development guide.
Although not very secure, this tutorial tells you the basic of a listener or deamon that would receive commands from external applications http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Deamon_in_Python Although old this is a tutorial on how it works: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Shukla, Mangesh < mangesh.shu...@siemens.com> wrote: > Hi , > I am new to OpenOffice development and need some ideas on the > following implementation. I am working on an C++ application which needs > to interact with OpenOffice.org. The interaction will comprise of > populating data in the spreadsheet application. The Calc application is > intended to be used as UI for displaying values to the user, and allowing > him to make changes. This interaction between the C++ application is > required on Windows, Linux and Mac as well. > > I have the following questions: > 1] I think I need to implement a UNO component which will implement a > service to handle the interactions with the OpenOffice Calc application. > This UNO component will be compiled as a shared library. My question is how > does a C++ application interact with the shared library of the component. > > 2] I also need inputs on how I can pass function pointers (in the C++ > application) during the Add-On menu creation, so that they get called when > the user clicks on the Add-on menu items. > > Please let me know if you need more inputs. > > Thanks, > Mangesh. > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
