Thanks for the responses to my previous mail. Below I'm replying to specific messages. I have some paths to research now.
> From: Miklos Vajna [email protected] > Can you build this on top of > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Impress_Remote_Protocol? > I've seen that. It's interesting and certainly does solve some of my requirements so It's worth a deeper look. I'll do it. Thanks for the clue. > From: Thorsten Behrens [email protected] > > Pretty much anything in LibreOffice can be remote-controlled from a > different process (even from a different box), via a protocol called > UNO (quite similar to COM). > > Here's an example in python (but the UNO API calls are really quite > similar for Java): > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33092424/control-libreoffice-impress-from-python > Very interesting. Thanks for the reference. I will certainly use that. > That leaves the question on how to dynamically generate slide content, > but that also works via UNO (you can even send Impress files over the > wire). There's documentation for that, e.g. Andrew's macro book linked > from the article above: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php Thanks. Each POS station will have some files ready to send so the sending of files over the wire seems a perfect fit. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
