Hi Jürgen,
Thanks for your valuable inputs and for pointing out the links to me. I
have checked out the links about Add-ons and addins. I am sure all the inputs
will come in handy when I get to implementation.
Regards
Mangesh
-----Original Message-----
From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Need help in getting the design right with Openoffice.org
On 12/20/12 9:13 AM, Shukla, Mangesh wrote:
> Hi Alexandro,
> Thanks for the quick response. Actually I would prefer the solution to be
> in C++, as I am not comfortable with Python. I will check the Add-on samples
> for the socket implementation. But since I am starter, I would like to
> discuss the design of how it should be implemented.
>
Hi Mangesh,
besides an add-on which is mainly the concept to integrate in the UI (menu,
toolbars) via API you can also check the concept of add-ins. For both concepts
you have to implement the necessary UNO interfaces. How you do the
communication from your underlying extension implementation and your external
C++ app is up to you. But of course you could use UNO here as well by
integrating parts of the URE in your C++ app.
Add-ons are the trigger points in the UI and you have to use the API to
manipulate the document by changing cell values, adding formulas, etc.
Add-in provide a way to create your won built-in function for the Calc that you
can directly call via the normal function dialog or directly in a cell as any
other function.
Calc Add-in
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/Add-In/CompleteAddIn
Add-on
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Add-on
> Thanks
> Mangesh
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Alexandro Colorado
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Need help in getting the design right with Openoffice.org
>
> 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-o
> penoffice-python
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Shukla, Mangesh <
> [email protected]> 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
>
