Paolo Mantovani wrote: > Hi Mathias, > > Alle 22:25, lunedì 20 febbraio 2006, Mathias Bauer ha scritto: > [...] >> It doesn't make any sense to record a S&R action that does not >> automatically replace all occurences or no occurence and asks the user >> for every single case. >> >> A macro that e.g. only replaces the 3rd and the 5th occurence can't be >> applied to other documents in a useful way. > > I agree, but actually the user *can* record such actions, even if it doesn't > make sense.
So the question remains wether these macros are a good candidate for investing time in making them "better". ;-) >> So what you need is "Replace >> All" and "Start Replacing and ask me each time". AFAIK the latter is >> possible only by dispatching because it's bound to a dialog while the >> S&R API of the "core" document explicitly is designed to avoid dialog >> interruptions. > > I'm not sure to understand you: > If you record a S&R (in Calc) with the macro-recorder you will see > that each time that you will press one of the 4 buttons available on the S&R > dialog: > Find > Find all > Replace > Replace all > > a dispatch ".uno:ExecuteSearch" will be recorded. Yes, that's what happens, but I'm not very fond of it. Sorry, I was not clear enough when I described how I think S&R can be automated. I think that recording specific S&R actions in general is useless. The only S&R actions that are applicable in a general way are "Replace all", "Start searching and ask me wether the found text should be replaced until no more occurences are found or I stop it" and "Search and replace the next occurence of this text". So recording a single "Replace" is useful, but having a *combined* macro that contains several "ExecuteSearch" steps where some of them replaced the text and some didn't is useless: you can't apply it to any other text than the one you recorded it for (except some very rare cases). > My problem is actually only the case SearchItem.Command=2 (replace first) > because I've not a direct API "traslation" for this command. Yes, I understood, sorry for not answering to this directly: I don't know how to accomplish that. Perhaps Oliver Specht has an idea, I will ask him. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
