Ariel,

The code is from the extension itself.  I get the feeling that the
technique is not intended for that situation.

Keith


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile
<arie...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:36:41PM -0700, Keith Alcock wrote:
>>  OpenOffice API experts,
>>
>> I've inherited code for an OpenOffice extension in C++ that
>> purportedly ran with a previous version of OpenOffice who knows how
>> long ago.  The code is throwing an exception.  It is presently being
>> built with Visual C++ 2008 and running under Windows 7, although I
>> doubt that either of those is the problem.  By the time the exception
>> is caught, it is of type com::sun::star::uno::Exception & with the
>> message "[context="user"] caught unexpected exception!".  However,
>> previous to that the debugger sees a
>> com::sun::star::ucb::InteractiveAugmentedIOException, an 'anonymous
>> namespace'::NoDescriptionException, a few
>> com::sun::star::ucb::InteractiveAugmentedIOException's, and a
>> com::sun::star::lang::WrappedTargetRuntimeException.
>>
>> The code is below.   I believe that it is preparing to load a graphic
>> from the extension's installation directory.  Perhaps there is an
>> alternate way to do that now.  Any and all help would be appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> OUString getPathToExtensionRoot(const char* name) {
>>     OUString ouName = OUString::createFromAscii(name);
>>     // localContext seems to be good.  It can be used for other things.
>>     Reference<XComponentContext> localContext =
>>         defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext();
>>     Reference<XPackageInformationProvider> xPackageInformationProvider =
>>         PackageInformationProvider::get(localContext);
>>     // The following line crashes as does any other call using ->
>>     // xPackageInfoProvider.is() reports 1
>>     try {
>>         OUString path = 
>> xPackageInformationProvider->getPackageLocation(ouName);
>>         return path;
>>     }
>>     catch (Exception &ex) {
>>     }
>>     return ouName; // just to return something
>> }
>
> Is this code from a client application or from a extension?
>
>
> Regards
> --
> Ariel Constenla-Haile
> La Plata, Argentina

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