On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
2010/1/12 Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]>:On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote:2009/12/20 Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]>:Hello Johnny, On Sunday 20 December 2009, 14:19, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:Anyone who can point me to somewhere where I can learn to create an add-on or extension? My thought is that the person to whom I send it should easily install it by the extension manager, so I guess I need to create an OXT somehow. How is all that done properly?if you just want to share macros with people, I'd recommend Paolo's BasicAddonBuilder http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/BasicAddonBuilder Anyway, if you want to study how extensions are packages, read the Dev's Guide http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Extensions/Extensions and http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Non-code_extensions Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, ArgentinaThank you, Ariel and also thank you, Jan. Currently I only write Basic macros (and create dialogs) and most of them are for Calc.Try the BasicAddonBuilder, this will build the OXT for you. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/BasicAddonBuilder "BasicAddonBuilder is an OpenOffice.org extension that allows you to export a StarBasic library in the OpenOffice.org Extension format, ready for deployment. BasicAddonBuilder does not require special skills or a deep knowledge of extensions specifications. A wizard-style dialog will guide you through the process, allowing you to define in a graphical way all menu and toolbars that will be added to the OpenOffice.org user interface in order to launch macros from your StarBasic library."Thank you all for hints and suggestions. I will certainly take a closer look at some of them. The BasicAddonBuilder seems like a quick way to get things done until I learn more about the concept of OXT.
The concept of OXT is basically very simples, there are three elements: - Zip File - XML file - Code file Zip file is the same used for ODT, ODS etc. XML files, it maps to the executable code, images icons, and the overal interface of OpenOffice.org Code file, basically has also a standarized services of the API to execute the code
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