Ariel, Thank you very much! I was already manipulating FeatureStateEvent to enable and disable the menu items, but I didn't realize that State holds the text of the menu item. I added just a line of code and now it works!
Keith 2014-10-16 14:16 GMT+02:00 Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org>: > Hello Keith, > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:13:19AM +0200, Keith Alcock wrote: >> API experts, >> >> This question below couldn't be answered in the forums, so I'll try here: >> >> I have a very nice addon programmed in C++ and the related menu items >> are stored in Addons.xcu. The addon would be even nicer if I could >> adjust the menu item texts as the user works, similarly to how the >> undo, redo, and repeat items function in the edit menu. I can't figure >> out how to get ahold of the XMenu associated with my addon. From there >> it seems that I could use setItemText(). Who knows how to get that >> XMenu and is willing to tell? Thanks. >> >> Additional information: >> >> I've seen examples (e.g., >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=6778 and >> http://www.libreoffice-forum.de/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12691) of how so >> search through the standard OpenOffice menus, but I don't think that >> the addon menu items are included based on the popupCount I get from > > You should *not* use the configuration API in order to change the text of > the menu item (a single change will cause the whole menubar to be > updated, and this is rather inefficient). > > The text of the menu items can be changed at runtime by sending a status > update where the css.frame.FeatureStateEvent.State holds the string with > the new menu item text. > > How does it work? The menu item is controlled in the application > framework by an object that listens for status updates at the dispatch object > you return in your ProtocolHandler implementation. > > For this to work, you may need to modify your implementation of the > ProtocolHandler; usually, in most examples, like the ones on the SDK [1], > the dispatch provider and the dispatch object are implemented in the > same class and status listeners are not tracked. > > [1] For example > <sdk>/examples/DevelopersGuide/Components/Addons/ProtocolHandlerAddon_cpp/addon.cxx > https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/odk/examples/DevelopersGuide/Components/Addons/ProtocolHandlerAddon_cpp/addon.cxx?revision=1413471&view=markup > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: api-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: api-h...@openoffice.apache.org
