RE: [api-dev] Addon Howto?
I chanced upon the message in the archives, which didnt really make sense to me before. But now it does. I guess the chapter 4.5 provides a means to write and deploy a component in Java on OOo. However I havent tried it yet, hence require your assistance to clarify if I am on the right direction. Thanks a bunch for the archives guys! Cheers G. Gautham Kasinath Masters Student School of Computing and Information Science Edith Cowan University Mt. Lawley Campus Perth IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL Screen name: gkasinath42 Mobile: 0433904011 Home phone: 61 8 9444 8154 Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/gkasinath The world is what it is, and we are what we are. - Maria Puzo (Godfather) -Original Message- From: Gautham Kasinath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 3:14 PM To: dev@api.openoffice.org Subject: [api-dev] Addon Howto? Hello, I am a newbie to the OOo world. And I am looking at writing some add-ons that will check the integrity of a document, in some way (like well formattedness) before the same is loaded into OOo Writer. Browsing the dev mailing list, I figured out that writing an add-on was one of the best ways (esp. for a guy like me that lives and dies Java). However, I haven't found any mention or HowTo on writing add-ons in the Dev guide. Can someone point me a direction to look? Thanks a bunch. Cheers G. Gautham Kasinath Masters Student School of Computing and Information Science Edith Cowan University Mt. Lawley Campus Perth IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL Screen name: gkasinath42 Mobile: 0433904011 Home phone: 61 8 9444 8154 Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/gkasinath The world is what it is, and we are what we are. - Maria Puzo (Godfather)
[api-dev] New Document from Template
Hi -- I thought this would be simple -- it isn't. I just want to have a macro create a new document from a template (not the default template). I recorded a macro, assigned it to CTRL+SHIFT+L. It just opens the templates directory. So I went digging around the archives of this mailing list and found an old message from 2001 with some code: sub Letterhead dim mProps(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue mProps(0).Name = AsTemplate mProps(0).Value = true oDesk = createUNOService(com.sun.star.frame.Desktop) oDesk.loadComponentFromUrl(D:\OOo_Templates\Letterhead.odt,_blank, 0, mProps() end sub I admit I don't know what any of this means -- I further admit that I don't *want* to know what any of this means. I just want to hit my keys and write my letter. :-) After some niggling, the final error message I get is that the URL seems to be an unsupported one. It occurs to me that I'm using OOo-Dev 2.0 -- I guess there might have been some changes since 2001? :-) Could some kind soul please tell me what's wrong? TIA Tam P.S. I also tried to take a peek at the old messages via gmane. I don't know if Mozilla is barfing on me, or it's SOP, but few of the old messages on this list are actually there -- just the subject lines. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] Addon Howto?
Gautham Kasinath wrote: I chanced upon the message in the archives, which didn't really make sense to me before. But now it does. I guess the chapter 4.5 provides a means to write and deploy a component in Java on OOo. However I haven't tried it yet, hence require your assistance to clarify if I am on the right direction. This is correct, it shows you the basics. There is a special chapter about Add-Ons, it's chapter 4.7.3. 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]
Re: [api-dev] New Document from Template
Tam wrote: sub Letterhead dim mProps(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue mProps(0).Name = AsTemplate mProps(0).Value = true oDesk = createUNOService(com.sun.star.frame.Desktop) oDesk.loadComponentFromUrl(D:\OOo_Templates\Letterhead.odt,_blank, 0, mProps() end sub I admit I don't know what any of this means -- I further admit that I don't *want* to know what any of this means. I just want to hit my keys and write my letter. :-) After some niggling, the final error message I get is that the URL seems to be an unsupported one. It occurs to me that I'm using OOo-Dev 2.0 -- I guess there might have been some changes since 2001? :-) Could some kind soul please tell me what's wrong? The message says it all: the URL is unsupported, mainly because it isn't a URL at all. Don't use system file names, you have to provide a valid URL: file:///d:/OOo_Templates/Letterhead.odt should work for you. 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]
Re: [api-dev] New Document from Template
Am Dienstag, den 27.12.2005, 00:21 +0100 schrieb Mathias Bauer: Could some kind soul please tell me what's wrong? The message says it all: the URL is unsupported, mainly because it isn't a URL at all. Don't use system file names, you have to provide a valid URL: file:///d:/OOo_Templates/Letterhead.odt should work for you. In Basic this can be done by using: ConvertToUrl(D:\OOo_Templates\Letterhead.odt) Have Fun, Marc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[api-dev] Re: New Document from Template
Mathias Bauer wrote: Tam wrote: sub Letterhead dim mProps(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue mProps(0).Name = AsTemplate mProps(0).Value = true oDesk = createUNOService(com.sun.star.frame.Desktop) oDesk.loadComponentFromUrl(D:\OOo_Templates\Letterhead.odt,_blank, 0, mProps() end sub I admit I don't know what any of this means -- I further admit that I don't *want* to know what any of this means. I just want to hit my keys and write my letter. :-) After some niggling, the final error message I get is that the URL seems to be an unsupported one. It occurs to me that I'm using OOo-Dev 2.0 -- I guess there might have been some changes since 2001? :-) Could some kind soul please tell me what's wrong? The message says it all: the URL is unsupported, mainly because it isn't a URL at all. Don't use system file names, you have to provide a valid URL: file:///d:/OOo_Templates/Letterhead.odt should work for you. Best regards, Mathias Hi, Mathias -- I tried that and it still isn't working. I *can* put file:///d:/OOo_Templates/ in a browser and get a list of the templates in that directory, but this line in the macro: oDesk.loadComponentFromUrl(file:///d:/OOo_Templates/Letterhead.odt,_blank, 0, mProps() leads to this error message: BASIC runtime error. An exception occurred Type: com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException Message: URL seems to be an unsupported one.. Sorry. :-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[api-dev] Optional Parameters in Starbasic function call
Question, I attempted to write a function with the following declaration: function findCodeVal( RegDSName as String, _ TableName as String, _ SrchColName as String, _ SrchFor as variant, _ RetColName as String, _ optional isCaseSensitive as boolean, _ optional isFuzzy as boolean, _ optional aConn as variant, _ optional UserName as String, _ optional Password as String) _ as variant However, with this declaration, isMissing returns False for every optional parameter, even when none have been pass in to functions call. When I changed the order of the parameters to: function findCodeVal( RegDSName as String, _ TableName as String, _ SrchColName as String, _ SrchFor as variant, _ RetColName as String, _ optional UserName as String, _ optional Password as String, _ optional isCaseSensitive as boolean, _ optional isFuzzy as boolean, _ optional aConn as variant) _ as variant Then isMissing returned the correct response in all cases. So is this because of the Boolean types as optional parameters? If so, can any one tell me what other rules apply to order of optional parameters. Thanks in advance. Andrew 'Drew' Jensen (Apologies if this is a second posting, I sent this yesterday but it does not seem to have made it for some reason) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[api-dev] [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPIC: Contributing
Dear OpenOffice.org community, This is the 2-weekly announcement of current issues regarding the OOo API project which I want to hightlight to the community. *** = *** Todays Issue: Contributing to the OOo API Project *** - The OOo community needs YOUR contribution too. And we are sure that you can contribute real value to OOo. Don't know how? YOU too can contribute to the OOo API project by: - Reviewing the documentation and reporting issues if you find any - Useing the OOo API and reporting issues if you find any - Answering the Questions of other Users of the OOo API - Summarizing answers which were given to questions (CodeSnippets) - Contributing your larger API examples to our example collection - Pointing out important articles for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEWSLETTER - Tracking unanswered questions on this mailing list - Preparing the next issue of [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPIC - Writing Test Cases - Translating Examples to C++ (NEW!) - Becoming an Official OOo Contributor Each idea contains a short description of how you could help in its respect, one ore more URLs for more information and an estimation about the efford on the task. *** = *** Reviewing the documentation and report issues if you find any *** - Besides others, the OOo SDK contains a Developers Guide and a Reference Guide. It's not only important for developers who want to develop applications with OOo to know these well. There is also always room for improvement in such documents. Thus, read the documentation: - http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html - http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/module-ix.html And when you find anything to improve which you think should actually be improved, report an issue to IssueZilla. After once being registered with IssueZilla, reporting an issue is just a matter of minutes. *** = *** Using the OOo API and reporting issues if you find any *** - Next you might want to use the OOo API for your own projects. Nothing is perfect, thus don't hesitate to report problems you consider worth getting fixed to IssueZilla. Here you find a description of OOos IssueZilla: - http://www.openoffice.org/project_issues.html After once being registered with IssueZilla, reporting an issue is just a matter of minutes. Of course code examples, well stripped down to the point, would help us even more. Thus count about up to 30 minutes for a complex issue. *** = *** Answering the Questions of other Users of the OOo API *** - dev@api.openoffice.org is not an official support medium. But that does not mean, we do not want questions answers. The OOo developers will do their very best to answer questions, but WE NEED YOUR HELP! The OOo core development team is very small compared to competing projects. Thus we cannot answer all questions. If you know an answer of somebody elses question, please post it to the list. If you are not sure, answer anyway, but mention your incertitude. This way you give the core developers more space to answer the tough questions, maybe your next tough question. If you know the answer off hand, it only needs a few minutes to contribute by answering questions. But we appreciate it even more if you have a vague idea and do some research. *** = *** Summarizing answers which were given to questions (CodeSnippets) *** - If you asked a question and got a satisfactory answer with a code example, be so nice and save it for somebody else who might have the same question in future. The mail archive can be searched, but the search features are not good enough, mostly because mails are not structured enough. But there is a better way: Summarize your question and the given answer(s) in an XML format for CodeSnippets. You can find more information here: - http://api.openoffice.org/SDK/snippets/ To delopy a CodeSnippet, you need about 15 minutes each. Don't you think that the answer given to you was worth it? Please submit the created codesnippet to the mailinglist dev@api.openoffice.org and it will be integrated into the snippet-collection on http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/ by one of the comminity members with CVS commit rights. As an addon to easily create codesnippets Paolo Mantovani has
