from:"rony g. flatscher"

This is the second of a total of four postings with the intention to demonstrate how to realize the 
same functionality of the posted OLE samples without OLE and in a portable way (running unchanged on 
Windows, Linux and Apple).


These are samples in the ooRexx scripting language, which usually can be easily adapted to other 
languages by replacing the tilde (~), the ooRexx message operator, with a dot (.).


Also, these solutions will use queryInterface() such that one can see for other programming 
languages that need to employ queryInterface() what the interface names are. The ooRexx solution 
(actually the ooRexx-Java bridge BSF4ooRexx) takes advantage of the available message paradigm and 
allows one to merely send the (unqualified) interface name to an UNO object (instead of coding the 
entire queryInterface() statement). The fully qualified interface name can always be looked up 
quickly from the AOO index for the letter "X": 
<https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/index-files/index-24.html>.


Here the portable, OLE-less solution as a follow-up to the matching posting 
(see underneath):

   /**
 swriter_paragraphs.rxo: using UNO.CLS (i.e. Java UNO under the hood) with 
ooRexx

 Links:<https://OpenOffice.org>
 
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge>
 <https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php>
 <https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html>

 Using UNO.CLS create a new swriter document, add paragraphs that get 
aligned
 in four different ways. Demonstrates how to incorporate UNO_CONSTANTS and
 UNO_ENUM values into a Rexx directory-like collection for easier use.
   ***/

   /* create a text document, demonstrate how to align paragraphs */
   xDesktop=uno.createDesktop()-- bootstrap & get access to XDesktop
   xcl=xDesktop~XComponentLoader   -- get XComponentLoader interface

   uri="private:factory/swriter"   -- new swriter document
   doc=xcl~loadComponentFromURL(uri,"_blank",0,.uno~noProps)

   xText=doc~XTextDocument~getText -- get text object
   xText~setString("Hello, this is ooRexx on:" .DateTime~new"!")

   xTextCursor=xText~createTextCursor  -- create the character based cursor
   -- make paragraph's properties accessible:
   xParaProps=xTextCursor~XParagraphCursor~XPropertySet

   ctlChars=.uno_constants~new("com.sun.star.text.ControlCharacter") -- 
UNO_CONSTANT
   paraBreak=ctlChars~paragraph_break  -- get paragraph break constant

   paraAdj =.uno_enum~new("com.sun.star.style.ParagraphAdjust")   -- UNO_ENUM

   arr=.array~of("right", "center", "block", "left")  -- adjustments
   do adj over arr   -- iterate over adjustments, create string, adjust
   xTextCursor~gotoEnd(.false)  -- position at end
   xText~insertControlCharacter(xTextCursor, paraBreak, .false)
   string=("This paragraph will be" adj"-adjusted. ")~copies(8)
   xText~insertString(xTextCursor, string, .true)
   xParaProps~setPropertyValue("ParaAdjust", paraAdj~send(adj))
   end

   ::requires UNO.CLS   -- get UNO support

If there are any questions, please ask them.

---rony


On 24.06.2022 13:04, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
This ooRexx program creates a swriter document which creates paragraphs that get right-, center-, 
block- and left-adjusted. There is a routine that allows to fetch constant and enum values in an 
ooRexx directory, such that sending the name of a constant or enum value will return the value one 
has to use as an argument.


/**
     AOO_swriter_paragraphs.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with 
ooRexx

     Links: <https://OpenOffice.org>
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge>
<https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php>
<https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html>

     Using OLE create a new swriter document, add paragraphs that get aligned
     in four different ways. Demonstrates how to use UNO reflection and
     incorporate UNO_CONSTANTS and UNO_ENUM values into a Rexx directory for
     easier use.
***/

   /* create a text document, demonstrate how to align paragraphs */
   serviceManager = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
   /* create text document */
   desktop  = serviceManager~createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
   noProps  = .array~new   /* empty array (no properties)   */
   document = desktop~loadComponentFromURL('private:factory/swriter', '_blank', 
0, noProps)

   te

Portable version (Re: OLE: scalc (creating data, display it in a chart)

This is the second of a total of four postings with the intention to demonstrate how to realize the 
same functionality of the posted OLE samples without OLE and in a portable way (running unchanged on 
Windows, Linux and Apple).


These are samples in the ooRexx scripting language, which usually can be easily adapted to other 
languages by replacing the tilde (~), the ooRexx message operator, with a dot (.).


Also, these solutions will use queryInterface() such that one can see for other programming 
languages that need to employ queryInterface() what the interface names are. The ooRexx solution 
(actually the ooRexx-Java bridge BSF4ooRexx) takes advantage of the available message paradigm and 
allows one to merely send the (unqualified) interface name to an UNO object (instead of coding the 
entire queryInterface() statement). The fully qualified interface name can always be looked up 
quickly from the AOO index for the letter "X": 
<https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/index-files/index-24.html>.


Here the portable, OLE-less solution as a follow-up to the matching posting 
(see underneath):

   /**
 scalc_chart.rxo: using UNO.CLS (i.e. Java UNO under the hood) with ooRexx

 Links:<https://OpenOffice.org>
 
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge>
 <https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php>
 <https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html>

 Using UNO.CLS create a new scalc worksheet, create random data and a chart 
based on it.
 Demonstrates how to incorporate UNO_CONSTANTS and UNO_ENUM values into a
 Rexx directory-like collection for easier use.
   ***/

   /* create spreadsheet, get first sheet */
   xDesktop=uno.createDesktop()-- bootstrap & get access to XDesktop
   xcl=xDesktop~XComponentLoader   -- get XComponentLoader interface

   uri="private:factory/scalc" -- new scalc document
   doc=xcl~loadComponentFromURL(uri,"_blank",0,.uno~noProps)

   xSheets=doc~XSpreadSheetDocument~getSheets~XIndexAccess
   sheet =xSheets~getByIndex(0)~XSpreadSheet-- get first spreadsheet


   /* note values can be assigned to cells with "string", "formula" or "value" 
(for numbers) */
   /* create the titles, pretend the last two years */
   year   = date()~right(4)-2
   titles = "Quarter", year, year+1 /* title array */
   do col = 1 to titles~items
   call uno.setCell sheet, col-1, 0, titles[col]
   end
   /* get all UNO_ENUM values in a Rexx directory */
   justify = .uno_enum~new("com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify")
   say "justify:" justify

   props=sheet~XCellRange~getCellRangeByName("B1:C1")~XPropertySet
   props~setPropertyValue("HoriJustify", justify~right)

   /* get all UNO_CONSTANTS values in a Rexx directory */
   weights = .uno_constants~new("com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight")
   say "weights:" weights
   props=sheet~XCellRange~getCellRangeByName("A1:C1")~XPropertySet
   props~setPropertyValue("CharWeight", weights~bold)

   /* create random values for the quarter numbers  */
   do line = 1 to 4
   call uno.setCell sheet, 0,line, "Q"line   /* title in first column   */
   call uno.setCell sheet, 1,line, random(0,50)/100
   call uno.setCell sheet, 2,line, random(0,75)/100
   end

   props=sheet~XCellRange~getCellRangeByName("A2:A5")~XPropertySet
   props~setPropertyValue("CharWeight", weights~bold)
   /* format numbers, predefined style, format: "#,##0.00" */
   props=sheet~XCellRange~getCellRangeByName("B2:C5")~XPropertySet
   props~setPropertyValue("NumberFormat",4)

   /* create a chart from the data */
   structRect = .bsf~new("com.sun.star.awt.Rectangle")
   structRect~X  =   300   -- x-offset:  0.300 cm
   structRect~Y  =  2250   -- y-offset:  2.250 cm
   structRect~Width  = 16000   -- width:16.000 cm
   structRect~Height =  8000   -- height:8.000 cm

   range   = sheet~XCellRange~getCellRangeByName("A1:C5") -- data to be 
used for the chart
   rangeAddr   = range~XCellRangeAddressable~getRangeAddress
   arrOfAddr   = bsf.createArrayOf(rangeAddr~getClass, rangeAddr) -- create 
array

   tableCharts = sheet~XTableChartsSupplier~getCharts-- get chart collection 
& insert
   tableCharts~addNewByName("FirstChart", structRect, arrOfAddr, .true, .true)

   ::requires UNO.CLS  -- get UNO support, will require BSF.CLS 
(ooRexx-Java bridge)

If there are any questions, please ask them.

---rony


On 24.06.2022 13:02, Rony G. Flatsch

Portable version (Re: OLE: simpress (create presentation and then run/starts it)

f each text paragraph:"
   call dumpItems text-- demonstrates enumerating listing 
text

   ::requires UNO.CLS  -- get UNO support, will require BSF.CLS 
(ooRexx-Java bridge)


   ::routine addItem-- adds string at the given (0-based 
outline) level
  use arg xText, string, level, bNewParagraph=.true

  xTR=xText~getEnd   -- get XTextRange
  xTR~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue("NumberingLevel",level) -- set 
XTextRange level
  xTR~setString(string)  -- set string

  if bNewParagraph=.true then-- add new paragraph
 xTR~getEnd~setString("0a"x) -- add linefeed character -> new paragraph

   ::routine dumpItems  -- show level and string from XText
  use arg xText

  enum=xText~XEnumerationAccess~createEnumeration  -- enumerate paragraphs
  do i=1 while enum~hasMoreElements
xtr=enum~nextElement -- we need XTextRange's string & properties
nl=xtr~XPropertySet~getPropertyValue("NumberingLevel")
say " item #" i": NumberingLevel="pp(nl) 
pp(xtr~XTextRange~getString)
  end
  return
   pp: -- "pretty print", internal routine: return argument enclosed in square 
brackets
  return "["arg(1)"]"

If there are any questions, please ask them.

---rony


On 24.06.2022 13:07, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

This ooRexx program creates a simpress presentation and then runs/starts it.

/**
     AOO_simpress_present.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with 
ooRexx

     Links: <https://OpenOffice.org>
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge>
<https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php>
<https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html>

     Using OLE create a new simpress presentation about REXX and ooRexx and then
     display it as a presentation. Demonstrates how to use enumeration to
     enumerate paragraphs of a text and query their 'NumberingLevel' property.
***/

   /* create a presentation, then start it */
   serviceManager = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
   desktop  = serviceManager~createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
   noProps  = .array~new   /* empty array (no properties)   */
   document = desktop~loadComponentFromURL('private:factory/simpress', 
'_blank', 0, noProps)

   drawPages = document~getDrawPages  -- get DrawPages
       -- first page
   drawPage=drawPages~getByIndex(0)   -- get first (empty) page
   drawPage~setPropertyValue("Layout", 0) -- "Title Slide"

   title = "ooRexx"
   shape = drawPage~getByIndex(0) -- get first shape (title)
   shape~setString(title)

   shape = drawPage~getByIndex(1) -- get second shape (subtitle)
   cursor = shape~createTextCursor    -- get XTextCursor
   cr="0d"x
   shape~insertString(cursor,"Open Object Rexx (ooRexx)"cr, .false)

   textRange=shape~getEnd -- get a XTextRange
   textRange~setPropertyValue("CharHeight", 15)    -- use 15 pixel height
   info="(Presentation created:" .dateTime~new")"
   textRange~setString(info)  -- set it to this string

       -- add a second page
   drawPage=drawPages~~insertNewByIndex(1)~getByIndex(1) -- insert at end, get 
access
   drawPage~setPropertyValue("Layout", 1) -- "Title Content"
   drawPage~getByIndex(0)~setString("Open Object Rexx (ooRexx)") -- first shape

   text=drawPage~getByIndex(1)    -- get second shape (listing)
   -- add string, supply level
   call addItem text, "REXX (IBM)",   0
   call addItem text, "First released in 1979 for IBM mainframes",    1
   call addItem text, "Object REXX (IBM)",    0
   call addItem text, "Object-oriented successor to REXX",    1
   call addItem text, "First released in 1994 with IBM's OS/2 Warp",  1
   call addItem text, "Negotiations about open-sourcing with RexxLA", 1
   call addItem text, "Rexx Language Association (www.RexxLA.org)",   2
   call addItem text, "Source code handed over to RexxLA in 2003",    2
   call addItem text, "Open Object Rexx (ooRexx by RexxLA)",  0
   call addItem text, "First released in 2004 by RexxLA", 1, .false

   document~setModified(.false) -- inhibit save-as popup
   /* OOo OLE interface does not answer hasOleMethod('start') with .true
       therefore forcing "start" to be dispatched to Windows */
   document~getPresentation~dispatch("start")   -- start presentation

   say "d

Portable version (Re: OLE: VBS "Automation_Bridge" to ooRexx

ge=objTable~XCellRange~getCellRangeByName("A2:D4")
  range~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue("NumberFormat", box("short",4))   -- 
set number format
  -- use ParaAdjust: com.sun.star.style.ParagraphAdjust.RIGHT
  right=.uno_enum~new("com.sun.star.style.ParagraphAdjust")~right
  range~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue("ParaAdjust", right)  -- align right

  -- Change the CharColor and add a Shadow
  objCursor~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue( "CharColor", 255)
  objCursor~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue( "CharShadowed", .true)

  -- Create a paragraph break
  -- The second argument is a 
com::sun::star::text::ControlCharacter::PARAGRAPH_BREAK constant
  objText~insertControlCharacter( objCursor, 0 , .false)

  -- Inserting colored Text.
  objText~insertString( objCursor, " This is a colored Text - blue with 
shadow"vbLf, .false)

  -- Create a paragraph break ( ControlCharacter::PARAGRAPH_BREAK).
  objText~insertControlCharacter( objCursor, 0, .false)

  -- Create a TextFrame~
  objTextFrame= 
objDocument~createInstance("com.sun.star.text.TextFrame")~XTextFrame

  -- Create a Size struct~
  objSize = .bsf~new("com.sun.star.awt.Size")
  objSize~Width= 15000
  objSize~Height= 400
  objTextFrame~XShape~setSize( objSize)

  --  TextContentAnchorType.AS_CHARACTER = 1
  objTextFrame~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue( "AnchorType", 1)

  -- insert the frame
  objText~insertTextContent( objCursor, objTextFrame, .false)

  -- Get the text object of the frame
  objFrameText= objTextFrame~getText

  -- Create a cursor object
  objFrameTextCursor= objFrameText~createTextCursor

  -- Inserting some Text
  objFrameText~insertString( objFrameTextCursor, "The first line in the newly 
created text frame.", -
 .false)
  objFrameText~insertString( objFrameTextCursor, -
   vbLf"With this second line the height of the frame raises.", 
.false)

  -- Create a paragraph break
  -- The second argument is a 
com::sun::star::text::ControlCharacter::PARAGRAPH_BREAK constant
  objFrameText~insertControlCharacter( objCursor, 0 , .false)

  -- Change the CharColor and remove the Shadow
  objCursor~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue( "CharColor", 65536)
  objCursor~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue( "CharShadowed", .false)

  -- Insert another string
  objText~insertString( objCursor, " That-- s all for now !!", .false)

   ::requires UNO.CLS   -- get UNO support

   ::routine insertIntoCell
  use arg strCellName, strText, objTable

  objCellText= objTable~getCellByName( strCellName)~XText
  objCellCursor= objCellText~createTextCursor
  objCellCursor~XPropertySet~setPropertyValue( "CharColor",16777215)
  objCellText~insertString( objCellCursor, strText, .false)

If there are any questions, please ask them.

---rony


On 24.06.2022 12:57, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
Having looked around some nutshell OLE samples to port to ooRexx I stumbled over 
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge> which 
depicts a VBScript example.


There are the following changes in the ooRexx code:

 * the "=sum" formula now has the cells and the + operator to add them up,
 * the TextTable numbers are formatted to #,###.00 and right adjusted.

Ad ooRexx: I use it to teach BA students programming from zero to Windows to Java in a four hour 
lecture in a semester (four months). The Java part includes the knowledge to apply ooRexx via the 
UNO Java bindings (one can use ooRexx to interact with Java objects, such that the students do not 
need to know Java, they just need to be able to read Java documentation).


ooRexx implements the message paradigm: a value (an object, an instance) is conceptually like a 
living thing that understands messages one sends to it, which causes the value to look for a 
method by the same name (supplying arguments, if any) which it invokes and returns any return 
value if any. The message operator is the tilde (~), the receiver is on the left hand side, the 
message name on the right hand side. (The short paper at <https://epub.wu.ac.at/8118/> introduces 
ooRexx briefly in ten pages.)


Usually one can turn VB code into ooRexx by replacing dots with a tilde, however it also works the 
other way round by replacing tildes with dots . :)


Here the transcription:

/**
     AOO_swriter_table.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with ooRexx

     Links: <https://OpenOffice.org>
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge>
<https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php>
<https://www.o

OLE: simpress (create presentation and then run/starts it)


This ooRexx program creates a simpress presentation and then runs/starts it.

   /**
 AOO_simpress_present.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with 
ooRexx

 Links: 
   

   
   

 Using OLE create a new simpress presentation about REXX and ooRexx and then
 display it as a presentation. Demonstrates how to use enumeration to
 enumerate paragraphs of a text and query their 'NumberingLevel' property.
   ***/

   /* create a presentation, then start it */
   serviceManager = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
   desktop  = serviceManager~createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
   noProps  = .array~new   /* empty array (no properties)   */
   document = desktop~loadComponentFromURL('private:factory/simpress', 
'_blank', 0, noProps)

   drawPages = document~getDrawPages  -- get DrawPages
   -- first page
   drawPage=drawPages~getByIndex(0)   -- get first (empty) page
   drawPage~setPropertyValue("Layout", 0) -- "Title Slide"

   title = "ooRexx"
   shape = drawPage~getByIndex(0) -- get first shape (title)
   shape~setString(title)

   shape = drawPage~getByIndex(1) -- get second shape (subtitle)
   cursor = shape~createTextCursor    -- get XTextCursor
   cr="0d"x
   shape~insertString(cursor,"Open Object Rexx (ooRexx)"cr, .false)

   textRange=shape~getEnd -- get a XTextRange
   textRange~setPropertyValue("CharHeight", 15)    -- use 15 pixel height
   info="(Presentation created:" .dateTime~new")"
   textRange~setString(info)  -- set it to this string

   -- add a second page
   drawPage=drawPages~~insertNewByIndex(1)~getByIndex(1) -- insert at end, get 
access
   drawPage~setPropertyValue("Layout", 1) -- "Title Content"
   drawPage~getByIndex(0)~setString("Open Object Rexx (ooRexx)") -- first shape

   text=drawPage~getByIndex(1)    -- get second shape (listing)
   -- add string, supply level
   call addItem text, "REXX (IBM)",   0
   call addItem text, "First released in 1979 for IBM mainframes",    1
   call addItem text, "Object REXX (IBM)",    0
   call addItem text, "Object-oriented successor to REXX",    1
   call addItem text, "First released in 1994 with IBM's OS/2 Warp",  1
   call addItem text, "Negotiations about open-sourcing with RexxLA", 1
   call addItem text, "Rexx Language Association (www.RexxLA.org)",   2
   call addItem text, "Source code handed over to RexxLA in 2003",    2
   call addItem text, "Open Object Rexx (ooRexx by RexxLA)",  0
   call addItem text, "First released in 2004 by RexxLA", 1, .false

   document~setModified(.false) -- inhibit save-as popup
   /* OOo OLE interface does not answer hasOleMethod('start') with .true
   therefore forcing "start" to be dispatched to Windows */
   document~getPresentation~dispatch("start")   -- start presentation

   say "double-check: dump NumberingLevel of each text paragraph:"
   call dumpItems text    -- demonstrates enumerating listing 
text


   ::routine addItem    -- adds string at the given (0-based 
outline) level
  use arg xText, string, level, bNewParagraph=.true

  xTR=xText~getEnd   -- get XTextRange
  xTR~setPropertyValue("NumberingLevel",level) -- set XTextRange level
  xTR~setString(string)  -- set string

  if bNewParagraph=.true then    -- add new paragraph
 xTR~getEnd~setString("0a"x) -- add linefeed character -> new paragraph

   ::routine dumpItems  -- show level and string from XText
  use arg xText

  enum=xText~createEnumeration   -- enumerate paragraphs
  do i=1 while enum~hasMoreElements
    xtr=enum~nextElement -- we need XTextRange's string & properties
    nl=xtr~getPropertyValue("NumberingLevel")
    say " item #" i": NumberingLevel="pp(nl) pp(xtr~getString)
  end
  return
   pp: -- "pretty print", internal routine: return argument enclosed in square 
brackets
  return "["arg(1)"]"

HTH

---rony

P.S.: The short paper at  introduces ooRexx briefly in ten pages, home 
of Rexx based technologies is the non-profit SIG "Rexx Language Association" at 
.

OLE: swriter (adjust paragraphs)

This ooRexx program creates a swriter document which creates paragraphs that get right-, center-, 
block- and left-adjusted. There is a routine that allows to fetch constant and enum values in an 
ooRexx directory, such that sending the name of a constant or enum value will return the value one 
has to use as an argument.


   /**
 AOO_swriter_paragraphs.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with 
ooRexx

 Links: 
   

   
   

 Using OLE create a new swriter document, add paragraphs that get aligned
 in four different ways. Demonstrates how to use UNO reflection and
 incorporate UNO_CONSTANTS and UNO_ENUM values into a Rexx directory for
 easier use.
   ***/

   /* create a text document, demonstrate how to align paragraphs */
   serviceManager = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
   /* create text document */
   desktop  = serviceManager~createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
   noProps  = .array~new   /* empty array (no properties)   */
   document = desktop~loadComponentFromURL('private:factory/swriter', '_blank', 
0, noProps)

   text = document~getText    -- get text object
   text~setString("Hello, this is ooRexx on:" .DateTime~new"!")
   cursor = text~createTextCursor

   ctlChars = getAsDirectory(serviceManager, 
"com.sun.star.text.ControlCharacter")  -- UNO_CONSTANT
   paraBreak = ctlChars~paragraph_break   -- get paragraph break constant

   paraAdj = getAsDirectory(serviceManager, 
"com.sun.star.style.ParagraphAdjust")   -- UNO_ENUM

   arr = .array~of("right", "center", "block", "left")   -- adjustments
   do adj over arr   -- iterate over adjustments, create string, adjust
   cursor~gotoEnd(.false) -- position at end
   text~insertControlCharacter(cursor, paraBreak, .false)
   string = ("This paragraph will be" adj"-adjusted. ")~copies(8)
   text~insertString(cursor, string, .true)
   -- fetch appropriate adjust enum value from directory
   cursor~setPropertyValue("ParaAdjust", paraAdj~send(adj))
   end


   /* Routine returns a Rexx directory containing all names and values of the 
supplied
   UNO_CONSTANTS or UNO_ENUM class name (needs to be fully qualified).  */
   ::routine getAsDirectory
  use strict arg serviceManager, unoClzName

  dir = .Directory~new  -- directory will get
  dir~objectName = unoClzName   -- allows to show the uno class it 
represents

  ctxt = serviceManager~defaultContext
  tdm = 
ctxt~getValueByName("/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection.theTypeDescriptionManager")
  reflClz= tdm~getByHierarchicalName(unoClzName)
  if reflClz~isNil then return dir  -- return empty directory

  typeClass = reflClz~getTypeClass
  if typeClass = 30 then -- UNO_CONSTANTS
  do
 dir~objectName = unoClzName "(UNO_CONSTANTS)" -- supply type info to 
name
 do c over reflClz~getConstants -- iterate over constant fields
    name = c~getName    -- fully qualified
    name = name~substr(name~lastPos('.')+1) -- extract last word
    dir[name] = c~getConstantValue -- store constant values with their 
names
    -- say "name:" name "->" c~getConstantValue
 end
  end
  else if typeClass = 15 then    -- UNO_ENUMERATION
  do
 dir~objectName = unoClzName "(UNO_ENUM)"   -- supply type info to name
 enumNames = reflClz~getEnumNames -- get all enumeration names
 enumValues = reflClz~getEnumValues   -- get all enumeration values
 do i=1 to enumNames~items
    name = enumNames[i]
    name = name~substr(name~lastPos('.')+1) -- extract last word
    dir[name] = enumValues[i]   -- store enum values with their names
    -- say "name:" name "->" enumValues[i]
 end
  end
  return dir

HTH

---rony

P.S.: The short paper at  introduces ooRexx briefly in ten pages, home 
of Rexx based technologies is the non-profit SIG "Rexx Language Association" at 
.

OLE: scalc (creating data, display it in a chart)

This ooRexx program creates a scalc spreadsheet, its data and a chart. There is a routine that 
allows to fetch constant and enum values in an ooRexx directory, such that sending the name of a 
constant or enum value will return the value one has to use as an argument.


   /**
 AOO_scalc_chart.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with ooRexx

 Links: 
   

   
   

 Using OLE create a new scalc worksheet, create random data and a chart 
based on it.
 Demonstrates how to use UNO reflection and incorporate UNO_CONSTANTS and 
UNO_ENUM
 values into a Rexx directory for easier use.
   ***/

   /* create a spreadsheet, add data for comparing two years by quarter, add a 
chart */
   serviceManager = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
   /* create spreadsheet, get first sheet */
   desktop  = serviceManager~createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
   noProps  = .array~new   /* empty array (no properties)   */
   document = desktop~loadComponentFromURL('private:factory/scalc', '_blank', 
0, noProps)
   sheet    = document~sheets~getByIndex(0)  -- get first spreadsheet

   /* note values can be assigned to cells with "string", "formula" or "value" 
(for numbers) */
   /* create the titles, pretend the last two yers */
   year   = date()~right(4)-2
   titles = "Quarter", year, year+1 /* title array */
   do col = 1 to titles~items
   sheet~getCellByPosition(col-1,0)~string = titles[col]
   end
   /* get all UNO_ENUM values in a Rexx directory */
   justify = getAsDirectory(serviceManager, 
"com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify")
   say "justify:" justify
   /* right adjust the last two years
   - possibility 1: 
sheet~getCellRangeByName("B1:C1")~setPropertyValue("HoriJustify",
   justify~right)
   - or: */
   sheet~getCellRangeByName("B1:C1")~HoriJustify = justify~right

   /* get all UNO_CONSTANTS values in a Rexx directory */
   weights = getAsDirectory(serviceManager,"com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight")
   say "weights:" weights
   sheet~getCellRangeByName("A1:C1")~CharWeight = weights~bold /* column 
headings   */

   /* create random values for the quarter numbers  */
   do line = 1 to 4
   sheet~getCellByPosition(0,line)~string = "Q"line   /* title in first 
column   */
   sheet~getCellByPosition(1,line)~value = random(0,50)/100
   sheet~getCellByPosition(2,line)~value = random(0,75)/100
   end
   sheet~getCellRangeByName("A2:A5")~CharWeight = weights~bold /* column 
headings   */
   /* format numbers, predefined style, format: "#,##0.00" */
   sheet~getCellRangeByName("B2:C5")~setPropertyValue("NumberFormat",4)

   /* create a chart from the data */
   structRect = serviceManager~bridge_getStruct("com.sun.star.awt.Rectangle")
   structRect~X  =   300   -- x-offset:  0.300 cm
   structRect~Y  =  2250   -- y-offset:  2.250 cm
   structRect~Width  = 16000   -- width:    16.000 cm
   structRect~Height =  8000   -- height:    8.000 cm

   range   = sheet~getCellRangeByName("A1:C5")    /* data to be used for 
the chart */
   rangeAddr   = range~getRangeAddress
   arrOfAddr   = .array~of(rangeAddr)  /* create array with the range address   
    */
   tableCharts = sheet~getCharts   /* get chart collection & insert 
    */
   tableCharts~addNewByName("FirstChart", structRect, arrOfAddr, .true, .true)

   /* Routine returns a Rexx directory containing all names and values of the 
supplied
   UNO_CONSTANTS or UNO_ENUM class name (needs to be fully qualified).  */
   ::routine getAsDirectory
  use strict arg serviceManager, unoClzName

  dir = .Directory~new  -- directory will get
  dir~objectName = unoClzName   -- allows to show the uno class it 
represents

  ctxt = serviceManager~defaultContext
  tdm = 
ctxt~getValueByName("/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection.theTypeDescriptionManager")
  reflClz= tdm~getByHierarchicalName(unoClzName)
  if reflClz~isNil then return dir  -- return empty directory

  typeClass = reflClz~getTypeClass
  if typeClass = 30 then -- UNO_CONSTANTS
  do
 dir~objectName = unoClzName "(UNO_CONSTANTS)" -- supply type info to 
name
 do c over reflClz~getConstants -- iterate over constant fields
    name = c~getName    -- fully qualified
    name = name~substr(name~lastPos('.')+1) -- extract last word
    dir[name] = c~getConstantValue -- store constant values with their 
names
    -- say "name:" name "->" c~getConstantValue
 end
  end
  else if typeClass = 15 then    -- UNO_ENUMERATION
  do

OLE: VBS "Automation_Bridge" to ooRexx

Having looked around some nutshell OLE samples to port to ooRexx I stumbled over 
 which 
depicts a VBScript example.


There are the following changes in the ooRexx code:

 * the "=sum" formula now has the cells and the + operator to add them up,
 * the TextTable numbers are formatted to #,###.00 and right adjusted.

Ad ooRexx: I use it to teach BA students programming from zero to Windows to Java in a four hour 
lecture in a semester (four months). The Java part includes the knowledge to apply ooRexx via the 
UNO Java bindings (one can use ooRexx to interact with Java objects, such that the students do not 
need to know Java, they just need to be able to read Java documentation).


ooRexx implements the message paradigm: a value (an object, an instance) is conceptually like a 
living thing that understands messages one sends to it, which causes the value to look for a method 
by the same name (supplying arguments, if any) which it invokes and returns any return value if any. 
The message operator is the tilde (~), the receiver is on the left hand side, the message name on 
the right hand side. (The short paper at  introduces ooRexx briefly in 
ten pages.)


Usually one can turn VB code into ooRexx by replacing dots with a tilde, however it also works the 
other way round by replacing tildes with dots . :)


Here the transcription:

   /**
 AOO_swriter_table.rex using OLE (object linking and embedding) with ooRexx

 Links: 
   

   
   

 This is the ooRexx version (which includes corrections) of the VBScript
 "A Quick Tour" example from the AOO (Apache OpenOffice) DevGuide, chapter
 "Automation_Bridge" documentation.

 Using OLE create a new swriter document, a TextTable, a TextFrame, 
paragraphs
 and apply various formatings.
   ***/

  -- The service manager is always the starting point
  -- If there is no office running then an office is started up
  objServiceManager= .OleObject~new("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")

  -- Create the Desktop
  objDesktop= objServiceManager~createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")

  -- Open a new empty writer document
  args=.array~new
  objDocument= objDesktop~loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/swriter", 
"_blank", 0, args)

  -- Create a text object
  objText= objDocument~getText

  -- Create a cursor object
  objCursor= objText~createTextCursor

  -- Inserting some Text
  vbLf = "0a"x    -- line-feed character
  objText~insertString( objCursor, "The first line in the newly created text 
document."vbLf,
   .false)

  -- Inserting a second line
  objText~insertString( objCursor, "Now we-- re in the second line", .false)

  -- Create instance of a text table with 4 columns and 4 rows
  objTable= objDocument~createInstance( "com.sun.star.text.TextTable")
  objTable~initialize( 4, 4 )

  -- Insert the table
  objText~insertTextContent( objCursor, objTable, .false)

  -- Get first row
  objRows= objTable~getRows
  objRow= objRows~getByIndex( 0)

  -- Set the table background color
  objTable~setPropertyValue( "BackTransparent", .false)
  objTable~setPropertyValue( "BackColor", 13421823)

  -- Set a different background color for the first row
  objRow~setPropertyValue( "BackTransparent", .false)
  objRow~setPropertyValue( "BackColor", 6710932)

  -- Fill the first table row
  call insertIntoCell "A1","FirstColumn", objTable -- insertIntoCell is a 
helper function, see
   below
  call insertIntoCell "B1","SecondColumn", objTable
  call insertIntoCell "C1","ThirdColumn", objTable
  call insertIntoCell "D1","SUM", objTable

  objTable~getCellByName("A2")~setValue( 22.5 )
  objTable~getCellByName("B2")~setValue( 5615.3   )
  objTable~getCellByName("C2")~setValue( -2315.7  )
  objTable~getCellByName("D2")~setFormula( "=sum ++"  )

  objTable~getCellByName("A3")~setValue( 21.5 )
  objTable~getCellByName("B3")~setValue( 615.3    )
  objTable~getCellByName("C3")~setValue( -315.7   )
  objTable~getCellByName("D3")~setFormula( "sum ++" )

  objTable~getCellByName("A4")~setValue( 121.5    )
  objTable~getCellByName("B4")~setValue( -615.3   )
  objTable~getCellByName("C4")~setValue( 415.7    )
  objTable~getCellByName("D4")~setFormula( "sum ++" )

  range=objTable~getCellRangeByName("A2:D4")
  range~setPropertyValue("NumberFormat", 4)  -- set number format
  -- use ParaAdjust:

Re: How to access UNO_CONSTANTS definitions via OLE/COM? (Re: Windows version: ProgIDs and typelibs for OLE/COM ?

2022-06-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

EnumTypeDescription") Then
   
     'MsgBox Join( oTD.getEnumNames(), CHR$(10))

     sNames = oTD.getEnumNames()
     lValues = otd.getEnumValues()
     For i = LBound(sNames) To UBound(sNames)
       iCount = iCount + 1
       If (iCount > 40) Then
         MsgBox(s)
         s = ""
       End If
       s = s & lValues(i) & CHR$(9) & sNames(i) & CHR$(10)
     Next
   ElseIf HasUnoInterfaces(oTD, 
"com.sun.star.reflection.XConstantsTypeDescription") Then
     lValues = oTD.getConstants()
     For i = LBound(lValues) To UBound(lValues)
       iCount = iCount + 1
       If (iCount > 40) Then
         MsgBox(s)
         s = ""
       End If
       s = s & lValues(i).getConstantValue() & CHR$(9) & lValues(i).getName() & 
CHR$(10)
     Next
   Else
     'Inspect oTD
     MsgBox "Unsupported type " & sName
     Exit Sub
   End If
   MsgBox s
End Sub

This can be used to see enumerations.

EnumerateEnumerations("com.sun.star.awt.FontSlant")

This can be used to see constant groups.

EnumerateEnumerations("com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight")

Hope this helps a little!


On Friday, June 17, 2022 07:36 EDT, "Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)" 
 wrote:
  OK, it is possible using 
"/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection.theTypeDescriptionManager". (Will have
to look further into it to maybe use it also for UNO_ENUM and the like.)

---rony


On 17.06.2022 12:46, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

In the process of creating a few nutshell examples using OLE/COM.

One open problem is how to get to the UNO_CONSTANTS via the OLE/COM bridge. 
Here a snippet and its
output (the tilde is the message operator in ooRexx and could be replaced by a 
dot for JScript and
the like; .nil is the singleton object with the string value "The NIL object" 
to represent null):

    factory    = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
    coreReflection = 
factory~createInstance("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")

    clzName="com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify"
    say clzName":" "(UNO_ENUM)"
    type=coreReflection~forName(clzName)
    say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(forName)"
    do f over type~getFields   -- iterate over all fields
    say f~getName":" f~get(.nil)   -- show name and get the value
    end
    say
    type=coreReflection~getType(clzName)
    say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(getType)"

    say "-"~copies(79)
    say
    clzName="com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight"
    say clzName":" "(UNO_CONSTANTS)"
    type=coreReflection~forName(clzName)
    say "type:" type "(forName)"
    say
    type=coreReflection~getType(clzName)
    say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(getType)"

The output is:

    com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify: (UNO_ENUM)
    type: an OLEObject type~getName: com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify 
(forName)
    STANDARD: 0
    LEFT: 1
    CENTER: 2
    RIGHT: 3
    BLOCK: 4
    REPEAT: 5

    type: an OLEObject type~getName: string (getType)
---

    com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight: (UNO_CONSTANTS)
    type: The NIL object (forName)

    type: an OLEObject type~getName: string (getType)

So using CoreReflection does not allow one to reflect UNO_CONSTANTS (forName() 
returns null).

Using getType() will return "string" for both, UNO_ENUM and UNO_CONSTANTS.

---

Would anyone have an idea how to use OLE/COM to get at the fields and values 
for UNO_CONSTANTS
like FontWeight (getting the UNO_CONSTANT value for BOLD other than manually via
<https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/FontWeight.html>)?

---rony

P.S.: In the process of creating OLE/COM nutshell examples for scalc, swriter 
and simpress.


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Re: How to access UNO_CONSTANTS definitions via OLE/COM? (Re: Windows version: ProgIDs and typelibs for OLE/COM ?

2022-06-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

OK, it is possible using "/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection.theTypeDescriptionManager". (Will have 
to look further into it to maybe use it also for UNO_ENUM and the like.)


---rony


On 17.06.2022 12:46, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

In the process of creating a few nutshell examples using OLE/COM.

One open problem is how to get to the UNO_CONSTANTS via the OLE/COM bridge. Here a snippet and its 
output (the tilde is the message operator in ooRexx and could be replaced by a dot for JScript and 
the like; .nil is the singleton object with the string value "The NIL object" to represent null):


   factory    = .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
   coreReflection = 
factory~createInstance("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")

   clzName="com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify"
   say clzName":" "(UNO_ENUM)"
   type=coreReflection~forName(clzName)
   say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(forName)"
   do f over type~getFields   -- iterate over all fields
   say f~getName":" f~get(.nil)   -- show name and get the value
   end
   say
   type=coreReflection~getType(clzName)
   say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(getType)"

   say "-"~copies(79)
   say
   clzName="com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight"
   say clzName":" "(UNO_CONSTANTS)"
   type=coreReflection~forName(clzName)
   say "type:" type "(forName)"
   say
   type=coreReflection~getType(clzName)
   say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(getType)"

The output is:

   com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify: (UNO_ENUM)
   type: an OLEObject type~getName: com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify (forName)
   STANDARD: 0
   LEFT: 1
   CENTER: 2
   RIGHT: 3
   BLOCK: 4
   REPEAT: 5

   type: an OLEObject type~getName: string (getType)
---

   com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight: (UNO_CONSTANTS)
   type: The NIL object (forName)

   type: an OLEObject type~getName: string (getType)

So using CoreReflection does not allow one to reflect UNO_CONSTANTS (forName() 
returns null).

Using getType() will return "string" for both, UNO_ENUM and UNO_CONSTANTS.

---

Would anyone have an idea how to use OLE/COM to get at the fields and values for UNO_CONSTANTS 
like FontWeight (getting the UNO_CONSTANT value for BOLD other than manually via 
<https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/FontWeight.html>)?


---rony

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How to access UNO_CONSTANTS definitions via OLE/COM? (Re: Windows version: ProgIDs and typelibs for OLE/COM ?

2022-06-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher


In the process of creating a few nutshell examples using OLE/COM.

One open problem is how to get to the UNO_CONSTANTS via the OLE/COM bridge. Here a snippet and its 
output (the tilde is the message operator in ooRexx and could be replaced by a dot for JScript and 
the like; .nil is the singleton object with the string value "The NIL object" to represent null):


   factory= .OLEObject~new('com.sun.star.ServiceManager')
   coreReflection = 
factory~createInstance("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")

   clzName="com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify"
   say clzName":" "(UNO_ENUM)"
   type=coreReflection~forName(clzName)
   say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(forName)"
   do f over type~getFields   -- iterate over all fields
   say f~getName":" f~get(.nil)   -- show name and get the value
   end
   say
   type=coreReflection~getType(clzName)
   say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(getType)"

   say "-"~copies(79)
   say
   clzName="com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight"
   say clzName":" "(UNO_CONSTANTS)"
   type=coreReflection~forName(clzName)
   say "type:" type "(forName)"
   say
   type=coreReflection~getType(clzName)
   say "type:" type "type~getName:" type~getname "(getType)"

The output is:

   com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify: (UNO_ENUM)
   type: an OLEObject type~getName: com.sun.star.table.CellHoriJustify (forName)
   STANDARD: 0
   LEFT: 1
   CENTER: 2
   RIGHT: 3
   BLOCK: 4
   REPEAT: 5

   type: an OLEObject type~getName: string (getType)
   
---

   com.sun.star.awt.FontWeight: (UNO_CONSTANTS)
   type: The NIL object (forName)

   type: an OLEObject type~getName: string (getType)

So using CoreReflection does not allow one to reflect UNO_CONSTANTS (forName() 
returns null).

Using getType() will return "string" for both, UNO_ENUM and UNO_CONSTANTS.

---

Would anyone have an idea how to use OLE/COM to get at the fields and values for UNO_CONSTANTS like 
FontWeight (getting the UNO_CONSTANT value for BOLD other than manually via 
)?


---rony

P.S.: In the process of creating OLE/COM nutshell examples for scalc, swriter 
and simpress.

Re: How to get debug information (Java, oxt)

2022-06-08 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

Hi Carl,

On 6/7/2022 12:07 AM, Carl Marcum wrote:

Hi Rony,

On 6/6/22 10:15 AM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote:

Hi Carl,

On 6/4/2022 3:31 PM, Carl Marcum wrote:
... cut ...

Am 03.10.21 um 15:12 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:

Searched on the Internet but found no pointers so asking here.

Problem: something goes wrong while registering a Java based extension (an oxt ), but no
information

is supplied.

Question: how to get debug (logging) information from a Java based extension?
Maybe with a Java
stacktrace?

---rony

P.S.: Could find the cause in the oxt, but this was really quite time consuming
(and therefore
effortful). Some new Java code caused a Runtime exception such that the registering of the oxt
could

not conclude; it would have helped a lot, if the Runtime exception was supplied
rather an empty
message was given (using unopkg from the commandline).

So the error is during unopkg and not when using the installed extension
correct?

Yes.
For runtime errors on Linux I start the office from the command line and you can println output
to it from the extension.

Thank you very much for this hint!

Are you using the --verbose option when using unopkg from the command line?

Yes.

As mentioned in the other reply, one of my problems is that in order to quickly get (re-)adjusted
to this infrastructure (being away because of other efforts for quite some time in between
activities) I would need some short, functional examples (like a nutshell extension in Java with
proper packaging to become able to experiment with both, the Java code and the packaging, hoping
to develop a conceptual model by doing so). It may be the case that these samples exist, but that
I have not found them. So any hint or link to such (Java) nutshell examples would be great as
they probably help a lot getting afloat quickly.

It might be a larger example that what you're looking for but take a look at my openoffice-groovy
project [1] that adds Apache Groovy as a macro language.

There is also an OXT on the extensions site [2].

Thank you very much, indeed!

As a matter of fact, like yourself I used the BeanShell example to add ooRexx as a macro extension.
Nevertheless I will look into it (in the middle of July when things have settled down a little bit
around here), as I might learn how to install the macros in share and user space (doing this
"manually" currently).

[On the side: my premiere platform for this has been AOO, but because of the students I have been
also trying to allow for using ooRexx as a macro language also for LO. It seems that LO has changed
too much to allow that to be still the case, which is awkward. Short of time I am not able to pursue
that, as the platform defining OO is AOO only.]

If you would rather have an basic stripped down extension example I can generate you one from my
templates or guide you in setting up so you can generate your own addons and addins.

[1] https://github.com/cbmarcum/openoffice-groovy
[2] https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/groovy-scripting-openoffice

That is *very* kind of you and I would like to pick up your offer about samples that would
show/demonstrate/guide to become able to create/generate also own addons and addins in ooRexx (this
is something I have been thinking of for quite some time)!

Probably only a brief sample/pattern for an addon and an addin and what the relevant definitions
would be terrific (especially what has to be taken into account for registering) and maybe where to
find the relevant documentation!

Groovy and/or Java would be more than fine!

Best regards

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Re: How to get debug information (Java, oxt)

2022-06-06 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

Hi Carl,

On 6/4/2022 3:31 PM, Carl Marcum wrote:
... cut ...

Am 03.10.21 um 15:12 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:

Searched on the Internet but found no pointers so asking here.

Problem: something goes wrong while registering a Java based extension (an oxt ), but no
information

is supplied.

Question: how to get debug (logging) information from a Java based extension?
Maybe with a Java
stacktrace?

---rony

P.S.: Could find the cause in the oxt, but this was really quite time consuming
(and therefore
effortful). Some new Java code caused a Runtime exception such that the registering of the oxt
could

not conclude; it would have helped a lot, if the Runtime exception was supplied
rather an empty
message was given (using unopkg from the commandline).

So the error is during unopkg and not when using the installed extension
correct?

Yes.
For runtime errors on Linux I start the office from the command line and you can println output to
it from the extension.

Thank you very much for this hint!

Are you using the --verbose option when using unopkg from the command line?

Yes.

As mentioned in the other reply, one of my problems is that in order to quickly get (re-)adjusted to
this infrastructure (being away because of other efforts for quite some time in between activities)
I would need some short, functional examples (like a nutshell extension in Java with proper
packaging to become able to experiment with both, the Java code and the packaging, hoping to develop
a conceptual model by doing so). It may be the case that these samples exist, but that I have not
found them. So any hint or link to such (Java) nutshell examples would be great as they probably
help a lot getting afloat quickly.

---rony

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Re: How to get debug information (Java, oxt)

2022-06-06 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

Hi Peter,

thank you very much for coming back to this!

I do not have the SDK installed. Unfortunately, the exact details have escaped me since (having done
too many other things in between).

Background: many, many years ago I have authored a bridge for the scripting language ooRexx taking
advantage of the AOO scripting framework which is Java based. Basically I copied the BeanShell
engine (editor and dispatching the scripts) and adjusted it for ooRexx (is C++ but there is a Java
bridge). The packaging was done copying some other samples, but could get it done only after
receiving help from some developers back then who knew about the uno packaging process and what the
xml configuration files need to contain. (Also, I reverse-engineered the file layout for scripting
language scripts in order to place ooRexx samples there.)

So my problem in essence is lack of knowledge of how to properly debug Java code in this context
when the Java exceptions are not carried over and displayed. Also, I have no real working knowledge
of how one could/should go about configuring uno packages.

It would be of great help if there was (and maybe there is, yet, not found so far) a minimal, but
working ("nutshell") Java example that would demonstrate and briefly explain how to create an uno
package in Java, being able to deploy it (maybe with a method/function that returns "hello, world
from a Java uno extension") and explaining the minimal configuration definitions.

If you would be aware of such examples I would be grateful for any links.

Again, thank you very much for taking time for this!

---rony

On 6/4/2022 7:40 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote:

I going through old emails and no one seems to answer you.

Can you describe your setup? OS, have you sdk installed?

All the best

Peter

Am 03.10.21 um 15:12 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:

Searched on the Internet but found no pointers so asking here.

Problem: something goes wrong while registering a Java based extension (an oxt
), but no information
is supplied.

Question: how to get debug (logging) information from a Java based extension?
Maybe with a Java
stacktrace?

---rony

P.S.: Could find the cause in the oxt, but this was really quite time consuming
(and therefore
effortful). Some new Java code caused a Runtime exception such that the
registering of the oxt could
not conclude; it would have helped a lot, if the Runtime exception was supplied
rather an empty
message was given (using unopkg from the commandline).

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Re: Windows version: ProgIDs and typelibs for OLE/COM ?

2022-05-10 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)


Hi Carl,

On 07.05.2022 19:40, Carl Marcum wrote:

Hi Rony,

On 5/5/22 6:31 AM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote:

Curious about the Windows version of AOO and its support via OLE/COM:

 * What are the ProgIds to use to automate AOO? Found the following ones with "office", "star" in 
them:


   G:\tmp\orx\ole\oleinfo\work>listProgIds.rex office
   #  415/2226: ProgId: [Dropbox.OfficeAddIn]
   #  815/2226: ProgId: [Lync.UCOfficeIntegration]
   #  918/2226: ProgId: [Microsoft.Office.List.OLEDB]
   # 1193/2226: ProgId: [OcOffice.FormRegionContext]
   # 1194/2226: ProgId: [OcOffice.OcForms]
   # 1195/2226: ProgId: [OcOffice.OneNoteHelper]
   # 1196/2226: ProgId: [Office.awsdc]
   # 1197/2226: ProgId: [Office.LocalSyncClient]
   # 1198/2226: ProgId: [OfficeCompatible.Application.x86]
   # 1199/2226: ProgId: [OfficeTheme]
   # 1278/2226: ProgId: [PDFMaker.OfficeAddin]
   # 1560/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarCalcDocument.6]
   # 1561/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarDrawDocument.6]
   # 1562/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarImpressDocument.6]
   # 1563/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarMathDocument.6]
   # 1564/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarWriterDocument.6]
   # 1928/2226: ProgId: [TFCOfficeShim.Connect]
   # 1929/2226: ProgId: [TFCOfficeShim.ControlHost.14]
   # 1930/2226: ProgId: [TFCOfficeShim.GetAddIn]

   G:\tmp\orx\ole\oleinfo\work>listProgIds.rex star
   #  175/2226: ProgId: [bhWM2Core.ctlServerStartscreen]
   #  179/2226: ProgId: [bhWM2Core.ctlStartscreen]
   #  319/2226: ProgId: [com.sun.star.ServiceManager]
   #  772/2226: ProgId: [JavaWebStart.isInstalled]
   # 1560/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarCalcDocument.6]
   # 1561/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarDrawDocument.6]
   # 1562/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarImpressDocument.6]
   # 1563/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarMathDocument.6]
   # 1564/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarWriterDocument.6]

   Trying to get at the published interfaces for e.g. 
"soffice.StarWriterDocument.6" does not
   return any published methods, properties, events and constants as is the 
case with MS Office. So
   wondering whether there are other ProgIDs for AOO on Windows registered that 
one should use
   instead? (Usually there are version independent ProgIDs which seems to not 
be the case here.)

 * Is there an AOO typelib available that would supply the published interfaces 
usable via OLE? If
   so what would be the name and how would one install them?

---rony




This may not be what you're looking for but I found this about an OLE bridge 
[1].
From the spec...
"The bridge is automatically used when someone access the Office through the COM mechanism. This 
is done by creating the service manager component, that has the ProgId 
"com.sun.star.ServiceManager". The service manager can then be used to create additional UNO 
services. There is no explicit mapping from COM to UNO or vice versa necessary. All objects which 
have been obtained directly or indirectly from the service manager are already COM objects. "


[1] https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html

Best regards,
Carl



After reading through the documentation it is clear that (as impressive as the COM/UNO integration 
is!) no type information gets published via OLE, cf. 
<https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html#a9>:


   9 Limitations of the dispatch objects

   The dispatch objects provided by the bridge do not support type information.
   IDispatch::GetTypeInfoCount and IDispatch::GetTypeInfo return E_NOTIMPL. 
Moreover there are no
   COM type libraries available and the dispatch objects do not implement 
IProvideClassInfo as well.

   IDispatch::GetIDsOfName has to be called for every name separately. That 
this one cannot query
   the ids for several names at a time.

   IDispatch::Invoke does not support named arguments nor the pExcepInfo and 
puArgErr parameter.

---

Not sure whether attachments get stripped on this mailing list or not. But if the attachments get 
through you will see how an OLE/COM object that publishes its interfaces can get exploited to create 
on-the-fly documentation that is meant for helping programmers. The documentation in this case is 
for the MS Internet Explorer (but Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, AutoCAD, etc. would work as 
well). It would have been great if the same would have been possible for AOO!


Again, thank you for researching and your link that is very interesting!

Best regards

---rony



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Re: Windows version: ProgIDs and typelibs for OLE/COM ?

2022-05-09 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

Hi Carl,

On 07.05.2022 19:40, Carl Marcum wrote:

On 5/5/22 6:31 AM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote:

Curious about the Windows version of AOO and its support via OLE/COM:

* What are the ProgIds to use to automate AOO? Found the following ones with "office", "star" in
them:

... cut ...

Trying to get at the published interfaces for e.g.
"soffice.StarWriterDocument.6" does not

return any published methods, properties, events and constants as is the
case with MS Office. So
wondering whether there are other ProgIDs for AOO on Windows registered that
one should use
instead? (Usually there are version independent ProgIDs which seems to not
be the case here.)

* Is there an AOO typelib available that would supply the published interfaces
usable via OLE? If
so what would be the name and how would one install them?

... cut ..

This may not be what you're looking for but I found this about an OLE bridge
[1].
From the spec...
"The bridge is automatically used when someone access the Office through the COM mechanism. This
is done by creating the service manager component, that has the ProgId
"com.sun.star.ServiceManager". The service manager can then be used to create additional UNO
services. There is no explicit mapping from COM to UNO or vice versa necessary. All objects which
have been obtained directly or indirectly from the service manager are already COM objects. "

[1] https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/spec/ole_bridge.html

Thank you very much for these pointers, will have to digest them, which will
take a while ...

Best regards

---rony

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Windows version: ProgIDs and typelibs for OLE/COM ?

2022-05-05 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)


Curious about the Windows version of AOO and its support via OLE/COM:

 * What are the ProgIds to use to automate AOO? Found the following ones with "office", 
"star" in them:

   G:\tmp\orx\ole\oleinfo\work>listProgIds.rex office
   #  415/2226: ProgId: [Dropbox.OfficeAddIn]
   #  815/2226: ProgId: [Lync.UCOfficeIntegration]
   #  918/2226: ProgId: [Microsoft.Office.List.OLEDB]
   # 1193/2226: ProgId: [OcOffice.FormRegionContext]
   # 1194/2226: ProgId: [OcOffice.OcForms]
   # 1195/2226: ProgId: [OcOffice.OneNoteHelper]
   # 1196/2226: ProgId: [Office.awsdc]
   # 1197/2226: ProgId: [Office.LocalSyncClient]
   # 1198/2226: ProgId: [OfficeCompatible.Application.x86]
   # 1199/2226: ProgId: [OfficeTheme]
   # 1278/2226: ProgId: [PDFMaker.OfficeAddin]
   # 1560/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarCalcDocument.6]
   # 1561/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarDrawDocument.6]
   # 1562/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarImpressDocument.6]
   # 1563/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarMathDocument.6]
   # 1564/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarWriterDocument.6]
   # 1928/2226: ProgId: [TFCOfficeShim.Connect]
   # 1929/2226: ProgId: [TFCOfficeShim.ControlHost.14]
   # 1930/2226: ProgId: [TFCOfficeShim.GetAddIn]

   G:\tmp\orx\ole\oleinfo\work>listProgIds.rex star
   #  175/2226: ProgId: [bhWM2Core.ctlServerStartscreen]
   #  179/2226: ProgId: [bhWM2Core.ctlStartscreen]
   #  319/2226: ProgId: [com.sun.star.ServiceManager]
   #  772/2226: ProgId: [JavaWebStart.isInstalled]
   # 1560/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarCalcDocument.6]
   # 1561/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarDrawDocument.6]
   # 1562/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarImpressDocument.6]
   # 1563/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarMathDocument.6]
   # 1564/2226: ProgId: [soffice.StarWriterDocument.6]

   Trying to get at the published interfaces for e.g. 
"soffice.StarWriterDocument.6" does not
   return any published methods, properties, events and constants as is the 
case with MS Office. So
   wondering whether there are other ProgIDs for AOO on Windows registered that 
one should use
   instead? (Usually there are version independent ProgIDs which seems to not 
be the case here.)

 * Is there an AOO typelib available that would supply the published interfaces 
usable via OLE? If
   so what would be the name and how would one install them?

---rony

One more observation on MacOS (Re: AOO41X: Time for RC1?

2021-10-04 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

When dispatching a script via the ScriptEditor for the first time on MacOS, the 
following warning
gets issued:

rony@wu114221 ~ % /Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice ; 
exit;
2021-10-04 11:52:46.561 soffice[21999:372424]*WARNING: NSWindow drag 
regions should only be invalidated on the Main Thread! This will throw
an exception in the future. Called from (*
0   AppKit  0x7fff22c3aed1 
-[NSWindow(NSWindow_Theme) 
_postWindowNeedsToResetDragMarginsUnlessPostingDisabled] + 352
1   AppKit  0x7fff22c48fd4 
-[NSThemeFrame _tileTitlebarAndRedisplay:] + 111
2   AppKit  0x7fff22c5b6ad 
-[NSTitledFrame _titleDidChange] + 158
3   AppKit  0x7fff2345e6f3 
-[NSTitledFrame setTitle:subtitle:] + 722
4   AppKit  0x7fff22c5b2d9 
-[NSThemeFrame setTitle:] + 50
5   AppKit  0x7fff23205e15 
-[NSFrameView _updateTitleProperties:animated:] + 51
6   AppKit  0x7fff23451527 
-[NSThemeFrame _updateTitleProperties:animated:] + 186
7   CoreFoundation  0x7fff203fea53 
__CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
8   CoreFoundation  0x7fff2049a4d9 
___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 49
9   CoreFoundation  0x7fff2049a454 
_CFXRegistrationPost + 496
10  CoreFoundation  0x7fff203cfcce 
_CFXNotificationPost + 736
11  Foundation  0x7fff21141bb8 
-[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 59
12  AppKit  0x7fff2335282c 
-[NSWindowTitleController _propertiesChanged:] + 147
13  AppKit  0x7fff22dfe587 -[NSWindow 
_setDocumentEdited:] + 120
14  libvcl.dylib0x00010662a0fe 
_ZN12AquaSalFrame21SetExtendedFrameStyleEm + 78
15  libvcl.dylib0x0001068c5868 
_ZN6Window16SetExtendedStyleEl + 104
16  libfwk.dylib0x00010936040e 
_ZN9framework19TagWindowAsModified8modifiedERKN3com3sun4star4lang11EventObjectE 
+ 814
17  libsfx.dylib0x0001051fd319 
_ZN4cppu25OInterfaceContainerHelper7forEachIN3com3sun4star4util15XModifyListenerENS0_20NotifySingleListenerIS6_NS4_4lang11EventObjectEvRKT0_
 + 201
18  libsfx.dylib0x0001052c2dbb 
_ZNK12SfxBaseModel26NotifyModifyListeners_ImplEv + 171
19  libsfx.dylib0x0001052c2298 
_ZN12SfxBaseModel8changingEv + 72
20  libsfx.dylib0x0001052c1a76 
_ZN12SfxBaseModel6NotifyER14SfxBroadcasterRK7SfxHint + 102
21  libsvl.dylib0x0001056f8dcc 
_ZN14SfxBroadcaster9BroadcastERK7SfxHint + 60
22  libsw.dylib 0x00017701330a 
_ZN10SwDocShell11SetModifiedEh + 186
23  libsw.dylib 0x00017700b6f9 
_ZN10SwDocShell23LinkStubOle2ModifiedHdlEPvS0_ + 41
24  libsw.dylib 0x000176b0387d 
_ZN5SwDoc11SetModifiedEv + 109
25  libsw.dylib 0x000176aff2d2 
_ZN5SwDoc12InsertStringERK5SwPaMRK6StringN26IDocumentContentOperations11InsertFlagsE
 + 1106
26  libsw.dylib 0x000176e29d2e 
_ZN17SwUnoCursorHelper22DocInsertStringSplitCRER5SwDocRK5SwPaMRK6Stringb + 638
27  libsw.dylib 0x000176e7aab7 
_ZN13SwXTextCursor15DeleteAndInsertERKN3rtl8OUStringEb + 231
28  libsw.dylib 0x000176e7e502 
_ZN13SwXTextCursor9setStringERKN3rtl8OUStringE + 146
29  libs5abi_uno.dylib  0x00011362fada 
_ZN7bridges7cpp_uno6shared25unoInterfaceProxyDispatchEP14_uno_InterfacePK24_typelib_TypeDescriptionPvPS7_PP8_uno_Any
 + 4042
30  libs5abi_uno.dylib  0x00011362f430 
_ZN7bridges7cpp_uno6shared25unoInterfaceProxyDispatchEP14_uno_InterfacePK24_typelib_TypeDescriptionPvPS7_PP8_uno_Any
 + 2336
31  libs5abi_uno.dylib  0x00011362edf0 
_ZN7bridges7cpp_uno6shared25unoInterfaceProxyDispatchEP14_uno_InterfacePK24_typelib_TypeDescriptionPvPS7_PP8_uno_Any
 + 736
32  libjava_uno.dylib   0x000179e12e2d 
_ZNK7jni_uno6Bridge8call_unoERKNS_11JNI_contextEP14_uno_InterfaceP24_typelib_TypeDescriptionP33_typelib_TypeDescriptionReferenceiPK24_typelib_MethodParameterP13_jobjectArray
 + 605
33  libjava_uno.dylib   0x000179e13877 
Java_com_sun_star_bridges_jni_1uno_JNI_1proxy_dispatch_1call + 1735
34  ??? 0x00019ebe36ae 0x0 +

How to get debug information (Java, oxt)

2021-10-03 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

Searched on the Internet but found no pointers so asking here.

Problem: something goes wrong while registering a Java based extension (an oxt 
), but no information
is supplied.

Question: how to get debug (logging) information from a Java based extension? 
Maybe with a Java
stacktrace?

---rony

P.S.: Could find the cause in the oxt, but this was really quite time consuming 
(and therefore
effortful). Some new Java code caused a Runtime exception such that the 
registering of the oxt could
not conclude; it would have helped a lot, if the Runtime exception was supplied 
rather an empty
message was given (using unopkg from the commandline).



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Ad runtime jar files (unoinfo java)

2021-09-29 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

The CLASSPATH environment variable or -cp switch needs to contain the output of 
"unoinfo java" which
usually consists of  the following fully qualified directories to point to the 
following files: 
unoil.jar, ridl.jar, jurt.jar and juh.jar.

LibreOffice combines these four jar files into a single jar file (I think 
libreoffice.jar) which
simplifies/shortens the CLASSPATH string considerably. Would this be something 
to be considered for
AOO as well (e.g. combining the four jar files into a single openoffice.jar)?

---rony



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Re: AOO41X: Time for RC1?

2021-09-29 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

On 29.09.2021 17:16, Dave Fisher wrote:
> Does the behavior change if you use the Terminal window to explicitly set the 
> environment and then `open -a OpenOffice`?

What environment variables should I change how to which value(s) (it seems that 
DYLD_ environment
variables seem to get purged [1]) ?

> I had to do that in Catalina to access a Mozzila keystore.

---rony

[1] "Runtime Protections":
<https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/System_Integrity_Protection_Guide/RuntimeProtections/RuntimeProtections.html>


> On Sep 29, 2021, at 8:03 AM, Rony G. Flatscher  
> wrote:
>> On 28.09.2021 22:25, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>>> Is this a regression?
>> Not really sure, it used to work on AOO 4.1.10 AFAICR, but now, testing 
>> against 4.1.10 the same
>> problem occurs, although java.library.path has a different value compared to 
>> 4.1.11:
>>
>>
>> java.library.path=[.:/Users/rony/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.]
>>
>>java.runtime.version=[9.0.4+11]
>>
>> However, I did update the operating system in between which now is macOS Big 
>> Sur 11.6.
>>
>> My (pure!) speculation is, that dlopen() on BigSur does not honor 
>> DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH which
>> includes ~/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib, cf. [1], [2].
>>
>> However, "man dlopen" would document that if DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH was 
>> not set, then dlopen
>> operates as if this environment variable was set to 
>> $HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib. If that was
>> the case then libBSF4ooRexx.dylib would be found as it is in /usr/local/lib, 
>> but it is not (hence
>> speculating).
>>
>> So maybe these libraries should be explicitly added to the java.library.path 
>> on Darwin to have
>> System.loadLibrary(name) look through them.
>>
>> ---rony
>>
>> [1]  "Using Dynamic Libraries":
>> <https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/DynamicLibraries/100-Articles/UsingDynamicLibraries.html>
>>
>> [2] Manpage for dlopen(3):
>> <https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man3/dlopen.3.html>
>>
>>
>>>> On Sep 28, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Rony G. Flatscher  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tested the MacOS version and ran into a problem: AOO does not consult 
>>>> "/usr/local/lib" on MacOS when
>>>> loading a native library.  Also, on "java.library.path" there seems to be 
>>>> a wrong directory
>>>> ("/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents").
>>>>
>>>> The setting of "java.library.path" in effect:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>> java.library.path=[/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents:/Users/rony/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.]
>>>>
>>>>   java.runtime.version=[9.0.4+11]
>>>>
>>>> Placing a symbolic link into "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents" 
>>>> allows the library
>>>> "libBSF4ooRexx.dylib" to be found in this version (and everything then 
>>>> works as expected), however
>>>> that directory should probably not be defined as it is does not contain 
>>>> any native libraries (rather
>>>> its subdirectory MacOS does).
>>>>
>>>> So, this version does not consult "/usr/local/lib" to find and load 
>>>> "libBSF4ooRexx.dylib".
>>>>
>>>> ---rony
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: Here the relevant stack trace (when attempting to load the scripting 
>>>> engine for ooRexx to run
>>>> an AOO macro via the Tools -> Macros menu):
>>>>
>>>>   Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no BSF4ooRexx in 
>>>> java.library.path
>>>>at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2541)
>>>>at java.base/java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:873)
>>>>at java.base/java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1857)
>>>>at 
>>>> org.rexxla.bsf.engines.rexx.RexxAndJava.(RexxAndJava.java:880)
>>>>at 
>>>> org.rexxla.bsf.engines.rexx.RexxEngine.initialize(RexxEngine.java:291)
>>>>at org.apache.bsf.BSFManager$8.run(BSFManager.java:854)
>>>>at java

Re: AOO41X: Time for RC1?

2021-09-29 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

On 28.09.2021 22:25, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> Is this a regression?

Not really sure, it used to work on AOO 4.1.10 AFAICR, but now, testing against 
4.1.10 the same
problem occurs, although java.library.path has a different value compared to 
4.1.11:


java.library.path=[.:/Users/rony/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.]

java.runtime.version=[9.0.4+11]

However, I did update the operating system in between which now is macOS Big 
Sur 11.6.

My (pure!) speculation is, that dlopen() on BigSur does not honor 
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH which
includes ~/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib, cf. [1], [2].

However, "man dlopen" would document that if DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH was not 
set, then dlopen
operates as if this environment variable was set to 
$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib. If that was
the case then libBSF4ooRexx.dylib would be found as it is in /usr/local/lib, 
but it is not (hence
speculating).

So maybe these libraries should be explicitly added to the java.library.path on 
Darwin to have
System.loadLibrary(name) look through them.

---rony

[1]  "Using Dynamic Libraries":
<https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/DynamicLibraries/100-Articles/UsingDynamicLibraries.html>

[2] Manpage for dlopen(3):
<https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man3/dlopen.3.html>


>
>> On Sep 28, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Rony G. Flatscher  
>> wrote:
>>
>> Tested the MacOS version and ran into a problem: AOO does not consult 
>> "/usr/local/lib" on MacOS when
>> loading a native library.  Also, on "java.library.path" there seems to be a 
>> wrong directory
>> ("/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents").
>>
>> The setting of "java.library.path" in effect:
>>
>>
>> java.library.path=[/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents:/Users/rony/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.]
>>
>>java.runtime.version=[9.0.4+11]
>>
>> Placing a symbolic link into "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents" allows 
>> the library
>> "libBSF4ooRexx.dylib" to be found in this version (and everything then works 
>> as expected), however
>> that directory should probably not be defined as it is does not contain any 
>> native libraries (rather
>> its subdirectory MacOS does).
>>
>> So, this version does not consult "/usr/local/lib" to find and load 
>> "libBSF4ooRexx.dylib".
>>
>> ---rony
>>
>> P.S.: Here the relevant stack trace (when attempting to load the scripting 
>> engine for ooRexx to run
>> an AOO macro via the Tools -> Macros menu):
>>
>>Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no BSF4ooRexx in 
>> java.library.path
>>  at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2541)
>>  at java.base/java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:873)
>>  at java.base/java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1857)
>>  at 
>> org.rexxla.bsf.engines.rexx.RexxAndJava.(RexxAndJava.java:880)
>>  at 
>> org.rexxla.bsf.engines.rexx.RexxEngine.initialize(RexxEngine.java:291)
>>  at org.apache.bsf.BSFManager$8.run(BSFManager.java:854)
>>  at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>  at org.apache.bsf.BSFManager.loadScriptingEngine(BSFManager.java:852)
>>  ... 40 more
>>
>>
>> On 27.09.2021 21:21, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>>> The macOS, Linux64 and Linux32 builds are also there!
>>>
>>>> On Sep 23, 2021, at 9:48 AM, Matthias Seidel  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have uploaded all Windows binaries to:
>>>>
>>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.11-RC1/binaries/
>>>>
>>>> Although we have not yet announced AOO 4.1.11-RC1 officially please feel
>>>> free to download and test them!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>   Matthias
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: Linux/macOS builds will be uploaded next week
>>>>
>>>> Am 22.09.21 um 17:33 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would be ready to upload the Windows binaries if we want to announce 
>>>>> RC1?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>   Matthias
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 21.09.21 um 23:15 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 21.09.21 um 22:42 schrieb Pedro Lino:
>>>>>>> Hi Dave, all
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 09/21/2021 9:07 PM Dave Fisher  wrote:
>>>>>>>> windows - thanks Matthias
>>>>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/912galt8kr7wiem/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.11_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe?dl=0
>>>>>>> Installed and tested signing a document. Works as expected
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> linux
>>>>>>>> We are waiting for someone to do a build.
>>>>>>> Can sign on Ubuntu 18.04 x64 using my PGP certificate
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unless there is a problem on Mac, seems like ready to go?
>>>>>> It looks good for me!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Matthias
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Pedro

Re: AOO41X: Time for RC1?

2021-09-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

Tested the MacOS version and ran into a problem: AOO does not consult 
"/usr/local/lib" on MacOS when
loading a native library.  Also, on "java.library.path" there seems to be a 
wrong directory
("/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents").

The setting of "java.library.path" in effect:

java.library.path=[/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents:/Users/rony/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.]

java.runtime.version=[9.0.4+11]

Placing a symbolic link into "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents" allows the 
library
"libBSF4ooRexx.dylib" to be found in this version (and everything then works as 
expected), however
that directory should probably not be defined as it is does not contain any 
native libraries (rather
its subdirectory MacOS does).

So, this version does not consult "/usr/local/lib" to find and load 
"libBSF4ooRexx.dylib".

---rony

P.S.: Here the relevant stack trace (when attempting to load the scripting 
engine for ooRexx to run
an AOO macro via the Tools -> Macros menu):

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no BSF4ooRexx in 
java.library.path
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2541)
at java.base/java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:873)
at java.base/java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1857)
at 
org.rexxla.bsf.engines.rexx.RexxAndJava.(RexxAndJava.java:880)
at 
org.rexxla.bsf.engines.rexx.RexxEngine.initialize(RexxEngine.java:291)
at org.apache.bsf.BSFManager$8.run(BSFManager.java:854)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.bsf.BSFManager.loadScriptingEngine(BSFManager.java:852)
... 40 more

On 27.09.2021 21:21, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> The macOS, Linux64 and Linux32 builds are also there!
>
>> On Sep 23, 2021, at 9:48 AM, Matthias Seidel  
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have uploaded all Windows binaries to:
>>
>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.11-RC1/binaries/
>>
>> Although we have not yet announced AOO 4.1.11-RC1 officially please feel
>> free to download and test them!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>Matthias
>>
>> P.S.: Linux/macOS builds will be uploaded next week
>>
>> Am 22.09.21 um 17:33 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would be ready to upload the Windows binaries if we want to announce RC1?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>Matthias
>>>
>>> Am 21.09.21 um 23:15 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
 Hi all,

 Am 21.09.21 um 22:42 schrieb Pedro Lino:
> Hi Dave, all
>
>
>> On 09/21/2021 9:07 PM Dave Fisher  wrote:
>> windows - thanks Matthias
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/912galt8kr7wiem/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.11_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe?dl=0
> Installed and tested signing a document. Works as expected
>
>> linux
>> We are waiting for someone to do a build.
> Can sign on Ubuntu 18.04 x64 using my PGP certificate
>
> Unless there is a problem on Mac, seems like ready to go?
 It looks good for me!

 Regards,

Matthias

> Regards,
> Pedro

Re: About OpenJDK

2021-08-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

On 17.08.2021 17:37, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On 17.08.2021 16:10, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>> Am 17.08.21 um 15:55 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher (Apache):
>>> On 16.08.2021 10:20, Bidouille wrote:
>>>> Hello team,
>>>>
>>>> Since july, AdoptOpenJDK has been renamed Adoptium JDK.
>>>> This project don't provide any JRE for Windows x86.
>>>> https://adoptium.net/releases.html
>>>>
>>>> So this will be a problem if AOO port x64 is not completed:
>>>> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=46594
>>> You may want to try
>>> <https://www.azul.com/downloads/?os=windows=x86-32-bit=jdk-fx>
>>>  which also
>>> includes JavaFX (which AdoptOpenJDK seems to ignore). (There are quite a 
>>> few Java OpenJDK sites
>>> which all use the same sources, depending on the site 32-bit Java versions 
>>> may be available or not.)
>> See:
>>
>> https://adoptopenjdk.net/faq.html#openjfxfaq
> Yes, I know that statement, however it is not true, there are backports of 
> OpenJFX bug fixes exactly
> for that reason (also, OpenJFX has been using OpenJDK 11 as its baseline). 
> That is also the reason
> why others do support the "FX" and/or "FULL" versions. Not sure why they 
> state that, maybe no one
> re-checked or there are no resources for JFX available (which is actually not 
> necessary as one just
> has to add the four FX modules to a distribution and voilà they are 
> contained).
>
> ---rony

As an example, here one of the latest OpenJFX backport to OpenJDK 11:

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:     Re: [jfx11u] RFR: Request to backport July 2021 CPU changes
Date:     Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:20:20 +0200
From:     Johan Vos 
To:     Kevin Rushforth 
CC:     openjfx-...@openjdk.java.net 


Approved.

- Johan

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 6:01 PM Kevin Rushforth 
wrote:

> Hi Johan,
>
> I request approval to backport the changes from the just-released July
> 2021 CPU to jfx11u (for 11.0.12) .
>
> 
https://github.com/kevinrushforth/jfx11u/compare/db9b1b7440...cpu-2107-sync
>
> This is a straight backport (patch applies cleanly) of the one FX fix
> that went into the July CPU.
>
> NOTE: Since this is an integration of already-reviewed fixes, I will
> push it directly to the master branch of the jfx11u repo rather than via
> a pull request.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Kevin
>

or

 Forwarded Message 

Subject:Request to backport 7 fixes to 11-dev for 11.0.11
Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 13:53:11 +0100
From:   Johan Vos 
To: openjfx-...@openjdk.java.net List 



Hi Kevin,

I request permission to backport the following issues to 11-dev, for the
11.0.11 release:

JDK-8258592: Control labels in Dialogs are truncated at certain DPI scaling
levels

JDK-8256283: IndexOutOfBoundsException when sorting a TreeTableView

JDK-8165749: java.lang.RuntimeException: dndGesture.dragboard is null in
drag

JDK-8249737: java.lang.RuntimeException: Too many touch points reported

JDK-8252099: JavaFX does not render Myanmar script correctly

JDK-8261460: Incorrect CSS applied to ContextMenu on DialogPane

JDK-8248126: JavaFX ignores HiDPI scaling settings on some linux platforms

- Johan

---rony

Re: About OpenJDK

2021-08-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

On 17.08.2021 15:59, Bidouille wrote:
>> You may want to try
>> 
>> which also
>> includes JavaFX (which AdoptOpenJDK seems to ignore).
> Thanks for this resource.
> But it provide only a ZIP and not an EXE.
> So, it's a pain for end-users to install this.

Yes, for end users this might be too much.

---rony

P.S.:

OTOH it is quite simple: unzip the zip archive and set the environment variable 
JAVA_HOME to it and
it gets used. This also makes it possible to have multiple versions of Java on 
the same machine and
just switch among them by changing JAVA_HOME.

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Re: About OpenJDK

2021-08-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

Hi Matthias,

On 17.08.2021 16:10, Matthias Seidel wrote:
> Am 17.08.21 um 15:55 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher (Apache):
>> On 16.08.2021 10:20, Bidouille wrote:
>>> Hello team,
>>>
>>> Since july, AdoptOpenJDK has been renamed Adoptium JDK.
>>> This project don't provide any JRE for Windows x86.
>>> https://adoptium.net/releases.html
>>>
>>> So this will be a problem if AOO port x64 is not completed:
>>> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=46594
>> You may want to try
>> <https://www.azul.com/downloads/?os=windows=x86-32-bit=jdk-fx>
>>  which also
>> includes JavaFX (which AdoptOpenJDK seems to ignore). (There are quite a few 
>> Java OpenJDK sites
>> which all use the same sources, depending on the site 32-bit Java versions 
>> may be available or not.)
> See:
>
> https://adoptopenjdk.net/faq.html#openjfxfaq

Yes, I know that statement, however it is not true, there are backports of 
OpenJFX bug fixes exactly
for that reason (also, OpenJFX has been using OpenJDK 11 as its baseline). That 
is also the reason
why others do support the "FX" and/or "FULL" versions. Not sure why they state 
that, maybe no one
re-checked or there are no resources for JFX available (which is actually not 
necessary as one just
has to add the four FX modules to a distribution and voilà they are contained).

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Re: About OpenJDK

2021-08-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

On 16.08.2021 10:20, Bidouille wrote:
> Hello team,
>
> Since july, AdoptOpenJDK has been renamed Adoptium JDK.
> This project don't provide any JRE for Windows x86.
> https://adoptium.net/releases.html
>
> So this will be a problem if AOO port x64 is not completed:
> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=46594

You may want to try

 which also
includes JavaFX (which AdoptOpenJDK seems to ignore). (There are quite a few 
Java OpenJDK sites
which all use the same sources, depending on the site 32-bit Java versions may 
be available or not.)

However, in the meantime I think it to have become really important to also 
offer a 64-bit Windows
release of AOO.

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Re: Availability of Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0-Dev3(m3) developer test builds

2021-08-15 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

Experimenting with the package on MacOS, getting the following error running 
unopkg manually:

command: [/Applications/OpenOfficeDeveloperBuild.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg 
add -f  
/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt]
dyld: Library not loaded: @___URELIB/libuno_cppu.dylib
  Referenced from: 
/Applications/OpenOfficeDeveloperBuild.app/Contents/MacOS/uno.bin
  Reason: image not found

Maybe a question ad adding uno packages in general (always wanted to ask and 
then never asked):

  * location: which would you suggest, user or --shared or both ?
  * using unopkg with sudo or not or is this irrelevant ?

---rony


On 12.08.2021 19:28, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> On 09.08.2021 13:56, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>> Available immediately are complimentary community binary builds
>> of Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0. The specific version is 4.2.0-Dev3-m3.
>>
>> Please note that these are not official, GA releases of AOO 4.2.0.
>> Heck, they aren't even *Beta* releases. Instead, they are developer
>> preview test releases, to allow for more wide-spread testing of
>> the current state of the AOO 4.2.0 branch.
>>
>> We encourage all users, or potential users, of AOO to download these
>> builds and try them out. Put them through real world and automated
>> testing and let us know how they do. YOUR FEEDBACK IS CRITICAL.
>>
>> These builds can be found at:
>>
>> o https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.2.0-Dev3/binaries/
>>
>> Thank you!
> Thank you!
>
> Downloaded the MacOS version (en-US) to test the scripting framework with 
> ooRexx:
>
>   * "Tools -> Macros -> -> Organize Macros -> ooRexx -> My Macros -> Library1 
> -> Macro1.rxo -> Run":
> works successfully and repeatedly
>
>   o the script runs in the user's home directory (/Users/rony) which is 
> great and solves a
> reported issue! :)
>
>   * "Tools -> Macros -> -> Organize Macros -> ooRexx -> My Macros -> Library1 
> -> Macro1.rxo -> Edit"
> brings up the editor (clone of BeanShell's editor): pressing "Run" 
> crashes AOO on the second
> "Run" invocation
>
>   o a popup menu appears, chosing "Reopen" brings up the "Start Recovery" 
> dialog and in the end
> showing the (empty) swriter document
>
> If there is anything I should do/test, please let me know.
>
> ---rony
>
>
>

Re: Availability of Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0-Dev3(m3) developer test builds

2021-08-12 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

On 09.08.2021 13:56, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> Available immediately are complimentary community binary builds
> of Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0. The specific version is 4.2.0-Dev3-m3.
>
> Please note that these are not official, GA releases of AOO 4.2.0.
> Heck, they aren't even *Beta* releases. Instead, they are developer
> preview test releases, to allow for more wide-spread testing of
> the current state of the AOO 4.2.0 branch.
>
> We encourage all users, or potential users, of AOO to download these
> builds and try them out. Put them through real world and automated
> testing and let us know how they do. YOUR FEEDBACK IS CRITICAL.
>
> These builds can be found at:
>
> o https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.2.0-Dev3/binaries/
>
> Thank you!

Thank you!

Downloaded the MacOS version (en-US) to test the scripting framework with 
ooRexx:

  * "Tools -> Macros -> -> Organize Macros -> ooRexx -> My Macros -> Library1 
-> Macro1.rxo -> Run":
works successfully and repeatedly

  o the script runs in the user's home directory (/Users/rony) which is 
great and solves a
reported issue! :)

  * "Tools -> Macros -> -> Organize Macros -> ooRexx -> My Macros -> Library1 
-> Macro1.rxo -> Edit"
brings up the editor (clone of BeanShell's editor): pressing "Run" crashes 
AOO on the second
"Run" invocation

  o a popup menu appears, chosing "Reopen" brings up the "Start Recovery" 
dialog and in the end
showing the (empty) swriter document

If there is anything I should do/test, please let me know.

---rony

Re: Availability of Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0-Dev3(m3) developer test builds

2021-08-12 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

On 09.08.2021 13:56, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> Available immediately are complimentary community binary builds
> of Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0. The specific version is 4.2.0-Dev3-m3.
>
> Please note that these are not official, GA releases of AOO 4.2.0.
> Heck, they aren't even *Beta* releases. Instead, they are developer
> preview test releases, to allow for more wide-spread testing of
> the current state of the AOO 4.2.0 branch.
>
> We encourage all users, or potential users, of AOO to download these
> builds and try them out. Put them through real world and automated
> testing and let us know how they do. YOUR FEEDBACK IS CRITICAL.
>
> These builds can be found at:
>
> o https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.2.0-Dev3/binaries/
>
> Thank you!

Thank you!

Downloaded the MacOS version (en-US) to test the scripting framework with 
ooRexx:

  * "Tools -> Macros -> -> Organize Macros -> ooRexx -> My Macros -> Library1 
-> Macro1.rxo -> Run":
works successfully and repeatedly

  o the script runs in the user's home directory (/Users/rony) which is 
great and solves a
reported issue! :)

  * "Tools -> Macros -> -> Organize Macros -> ooRexx -> My Macros -> Library1 
-> Macro1.rxo -> Edit"
brings up the editor (clone of BeanShell's editor): pressing "Run" crashes 
AOO on the second
"Run" invocation

  o a popup menu appears, chosing "Reopen" brings up the "Start Recovery" 
dialog and in the end
showing the (empty) swriter document

If there is anything I should do/test, please let me know.

---rony

Re: Some observations about AOO 4.1.10 and Windows 10 Pro 21H1

2021-07-20 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

On 17.07.2021 10:42, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
> 2.
> JRE 1.8.0_291 is not recognized by OO and cannot be activated - even if I 
> first install JRE and then AOO it is like this.
> (In the forum http://de.openoffice.info it is however reported by a user that 
> he uses 1.8.0_291 in AOO 4.1.10, perhaps the problem occurs only with 21H1 of 
> Windows 10).
>
> JRE 1.7.0_71 on the other hand is recognized without problems (even when 
> installing after AOO) and can be activated.

Could it be that JRE 1.8.0_291 is blocked? Cf. e.g.

 .

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Re: Does AOO 4.1.8 run under macOS Big Sur?

2020-12-19 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

On 18.12.2020 16:25, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> Can you try with:
>
> http://home.apache.org/~jim/AOO-builds/

Same error:

wu114216:~ rony$ "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/unopkg" add 
-f --shared 
/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt
  dyld: Library not loaded: @___URELIB/libuno_cppu.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/uno.bin
Reason: image not found

---rony


On Dec 17, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)  
wrote:

... cut ...

>>> On 14.12.2020 13:33, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 12, 2020, at 5:21 AM, Matthias Seidel  
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been able to open docx with your version (en-US) on Big Sur.
>>>>> However, I am not sure if this bug ever applied to 4.2.x.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Extension Manager is still broken. But similar behavior is to be
>>>>> seen in 4.2.x on Windows, so the UNO problem is not mac specific.
>>>>>
>>>> Yes... I am also looking into issues w/ 4.2.0-dev and check for updates 
>>>> (main level)
>>> Ah, o.k. that might explain this. Got a minute so tried to test 4.2 beta 
>>> w.r.t. issue 127966  [1]
>>> and was not able to get ooRexx functional. When trying to register the oxt 
>>> package manually with
>>> unopkg, I got this error message:
>>>
>>>   wu114216:~ rony$ "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/unopkg" 
>>> add -f --shared 
>>> /Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt
>>>   dyld: Library not loaded: @___URELIB/libuno_cppu.dylib
>>> Referenced from: /Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/uno.bin
>>> Reason: image not found
>>>
>>> ---rony
>>>
>>> [1] MacOS: Current directory wrongly set to root directory "/" for scripts:
>>> <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127966>
>>>

Re: Does AOO 4.1.8 run under macOS Big Sur?

2020-12-17 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

On 14.12.2020 13:33, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>> On Dec 12, 2020, at 5:21 AM, Matthias Seidel  
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> I have been able to open docx with your version (en-US) on Big Sur.
>> However, I am not sure if this bug ever applied to 4.2.x.
>>
>> The Extension Manager is still broken. But similar behavior is to be
>> seen in 4.2.x on Windows, so the UNO problem is not mac specific.
>>
> Yes... I am also looking into issues w/ 4.2.0-dev and check for updates (main 
> level)

Ah, o.k. that might explain this. Got a minute so tried to test 4.2 beta w.r.t. 
issue 127966  [1]
and was not able to get ooRexx functional. When trying to register the oxt 
package manually with
unopkg, I got this error message:

wu114216:~ rony$ "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/unopkg" add 
-f --shared 
/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt
dyld: Library not loaded: @___URELIB/libuno_cppu.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/uno.bin
  Reason: image not found

---rony

[1] MacOS: Current directory wrongly set to root directory "/" for scripts:

Re: Java, OOo, ... (Re: [discussion] future embedded DB in AOO

2020-12-11 Thread Rony G Flatscher

Thank you as well, also for the link which I was not aware of! 

—-rony

Rony G. Flatscher (mobil/e)

> Am 10.12.2020 um 12:49 schrieb Matthias Seidel :
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>> Am 10.12.20 um 01:59 schrieb Peter Kovacs:
>> Thank you Rony for the Java deep dive.
> 
> +1
> 
> And BTW:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4DeOilMOQA
> 
> Regards,
> 
>Matthias
> 
>> 
>>> On 08.12.20 19:11, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote:
>>> Hmm, just some thoughts and pointers that may be helpful in the
>>> context of the current Java and
>>> possibly HSQL discussions.
>>> 
>>> Ad Java and OpenOffice
>>> 
>>>  IMHO Java has been fulfilling Sun's original promise "write
>>> once, run everywhere" in a very
>>>  impressive way for decades by  now! When Sun (being the inventor
>>> of Java) bought Star Division
>>>  to acquire StarOffice and making the source also available via
>>> openoffice.org, Sun also had the
>>>  Java interfaces put into the office suite, such that Java
>>> programmers would be able to interface
>>>  with OOo (using "OOo" to also mean AOO and the LO-fork) via UNO
>>> to this very day, and also
>>>  enabling Java to become an additional programming language to
>>> C++ to create OOo packages. This
>>>  has been some achievement and to me has been impressive to this
>>> very day!
>>> 
>>>  Java AOO components and Java applications interacting with AOO
>>> have been working for almost
>>>  decades without a need of change! (Also such applications would
>>> be deployable on different
>>>  operating systems without a need to rewrite and recompile them!)
>>> 
>>>  Discussing removing Java dependencies given this history and
>>> integration makes me a little bit
>>>  nervous if looking at some of the arguments, which may go back
>>> to misconceptions, hear-say and
>>>  possibly wrong information published about Java (like Oracle's
>>> change in its license would make
>>>  it impossible for software XXX to continue to use it ... which
>>> simply is not the case).
>>> 
>>>  The scripting interface to OOo is written in Java. Therefore it
>>> has become possible to use the
>>>  Java implemented scripting languages JavaScript and BeanShell to
>>> create OOo macros, besides OOo
>>>  Basic and Python. In addition - as others have done also - I
>>> authored a little package that uses
>>>  the OOo scripting interface in order to make another scripting
>>> language (ooRexx [1]) available
>>>  as an OOo macro language (one package creates a bidirectional
>>> bridge between ooRexx and Java
>>>  [2], the other package camouflages UNO as ooRexx and exploits
>>> the UNO reflection mechanism to
>>>  make it easy on programmers to interface with OOo [3]), so this
>>> is one reason, why being a
>>>  little bit nervous about a possible wrong assessment of Java...
>>> 
>>> Ad Java Distributions
>>> 
>>>  It seems that many people think that Java is only available in a
>>> proprietary form from Oracle
>>>  [4], which changed its license terms for its Java 1.8/8 and up,
>>> around the time when modular
>>>  Java (Java 9) got released. Oracle is regarded to be the owner
>>> of Java and therefore people tend
>>>  to think that there is no open-source, free alternative
>>> available, which is not correct.
>>> 
>>>  Enter "OpenJDK" [5] the open-source version of Java: this allows
>>> you to use Java for free (it is
>>>  GPL with the CLASSPATH exception license such that your code
>>> using it does not fall under GPL
>>>  automatically). With the modular versions of Java, starting with
>>> Java 9, one is even able to
>>>  create one own's Java (runtime environment, JRE) by combining
>>> the Java modules one wishes to
>>>  deploy[6]. (This would even open up the opportunity for OOo to
>>> create and distribute its own
>>>  tailored JRE, should such a need arise.)
>>> 
>>>  If you do not feel inclined to create your own JRE (Java
>>> runtime-environment) then you can
>>>  download Java=OpenJDK JRE for your particular platform from e.g.
>>> AdoptOpenJDK [7], Liberica [8]
>>>  or Zulu [9] to n

Java, OOo, ... (Re: [discussion] future embedded DB in AOO

2020-12-08 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)

Hmm, just some thoughts and pointers that may be helpful in the context of the 
current Java and
possibly HSQL discussions.

Ad Java and OpenOffice

IMHO Java has been fulfilling Sun's original promise "write once, run 
everywhere" in a very
impressive way for decades by  now! When Sun (being the inventor of Java) 
bought Star Division
to acquire StarOffice and making the source also available via 
openoffice.org, Sun also had the
Java interfaces put into the office suite, such that Java programmers would 
be able to interface
with OOo (using "OOo" to also mean AOO and the LO-fork) via UNO to this 
very day, and also
enabling Java to become an additional programming language to C++ to create 
OOo packages. This
has been some achievement and to me has been impressive to this very day!

Java AOO components and Java applications interacting with AOO have been 
working for almost
decades without a need of change! (Also such applications would be 
deployable on different
operating systems without a need to rewrite and recompile them!)

Discussing removing Java dependencies given this history and integration 
makes me a little bit
nervous if looking at some of the arguments, which may go back to 
misconceptions, hear-say and
possibly wrong information published about Java (like Oracle's change in 
its license would make
it impossible for software XXX to continue to use it ... which simply is 
not the case).

The scripting interface to OOo is written in Java. Therefore it has become 
possible to use the
Java implemented scripting languages JavaScript and BeanShell to create OOo 
macros, besides OOo
Basic and Python. In addition - as others have done also - I authored a 
little package that uses
the OOo scripting interface in order to make another scripting language 
(ooRexx [1]) available
as an OOo macro language (one package creates a bidirectional bridge 
between ooRexx and Java
[2], the other package camouflages UNO as ooRexx and exploits the UNO 
reflection mechanism to
make it easy on programmers to interface with OOo [3]), so this is one 
reason, why being a
little bit nervous about a possible wrong assessment of Java...

Ad Java Distributions

It seems that many people think that Java is only available in a 
proprietary form from Oracle
[4], which changed its license terms for its Java 1.8/8 and up, around the 
time when modular
Java (Java 9) got released. Oracle is regarded to be the owner of Java and 
therefore people tend
to think that there is no open-source, free alternative available, which is 
not correct.

Enter "OpenJDK" [5] the open-source version of Java: this allows you to use 
Java for free (it is
GPL with the CLASSPATH exception license such that your code using it does 
not fall under GPL
automatically). With the modular versions of Java, starting with Java 9, 
one is even able to
create one own's Java (runtime environment, JRE) by combining the Java 
modules one wishes to
deploy[6]. (This would even open up the opportunity for OOo to create and 
distribute its own
tailored JRE, should such a need arise.)

If you do not feel inclined to create your own JRE (Java 
runtime-environment) then you can
download Java=OpenJDK JRE for your particular platform from e.g. 
AdoptOpenJDK [7], Liberica [8]
or Zulu [9] to name a few.

So Java is available in an open-source and free form with the term OpenJDK 
(open Java
development kit) [5].

One tidbit in this "license" context: programmers who wish to contribute to 
Java/OpenJDK must
sign an "OCA" (Oracle contributer agreement [15]) giving more or less all 
rights on the
contributed software to Oracle which then makes the software available to 
the OpenJDK with GPL
and the CLASSPATH exception. Something that Sun had done with software 
contributed to OOo. This
BTW allowed later Oracle (after buying Sun and acquiring all of Sun's 
software rights) to
contribute the OOo source code to the Apache software foundation, making it 
in the end possible
to create and release AOO under the Apache license! (BTW, one would be able 
to release one
own's, contributed code with additional, different licenses. Something that 
would also be
possible for e.g. LO-contributors, but many are not aware of this it seems.)

Ad Java 1.8/8 Versus Java 9 and Later ...

Java 9 got introduced in the fall of 2017 [10]. There are a few notable 
changes:

  * one being that Java has been finally modularized: internal and 
reflective code now is
access-based (using the package java.lang.invoke), such that 
setAccessible as used in the
prior versions via the java.lang.reflect package in order to invoke 
reflectively will not be
allowed anymore. In the transition phase this may cause many, many 
problems with code that
was created prior to Java 9, such that for some

Re: OS/2 (Re: Question ad MacOS 4.2 Developer Build

2020-07-15 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

Hi Matthias,

had a little time: [1] refers to the OS/2 EDM magazine about Object  Rexx which 
got introduced with
OS/2 Warp by IBM.

[1]  contains a link [2] to a brief article (10 pages) I wrote about 15 years 
ago which attempts to
introduce the Rexx language to newbies and Open Object Rexx.

[2] has an example that demonstrates how one would create a swriter document in 
seven lines of code
from ooRexx (from outside of OOo). That sample still runs unchanged today, 
though ooRexx and
BSF4ooRexx have seen a *lot* of development since 2006.

Cheers,

---rony

P.S.: I have been employing ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx successfully on a business 
administration
university for 20 years, where it is possible with this mix to introduce 
interested BA students to
programming (literally from zero knowledge to Windows OLE programming to Java 
programming on all
supported platforms) within a *single* semester with a weekly teaching load of 
four hours, believe
it or not (8 ECTS in total). This is only possible because Rexx/ooRexx are 
quite easy to learn due
to the syntax, yet powerful enough to do many, many interesting things...

[1] "Object REXX": <http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Object_REXX>
[2] " Resurrecting REXX, Introducing Object Rexx":
<http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/rexx/misc/ecoop06/ECOOP2006_RDL_Workshop_Flatscher_Paper.pdf>


On 14.07.2020 17:00, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On 14.07.2020 16:48, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>> Hi Rony,
>>
>> Am 14.07.20 um 16:34 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>
>>> On 14.07.2020 16:14, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>>>> Am 14.07.20 um 16:03 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> yesterday I intended to test the ooRexx macro language oxt file against 
>>>>> the MacOS Developer Build
>>>>> (4.2) to test whether <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127966> 
>>>>> is fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>> As the install script that has been working for more than 10 years on OO 
>>>>> (and LO) failed I looked
>>>>> into the cause and saw that the "soffice" (and "unoinfo") executable now 
>>>>> resides in
>>>>> "/Applications/OpenOffice Developer Build.app/Contents/*MacOS*/soffice" 
>>>>> whereas it used to be
>>>>> located in "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/*program*/soffice".
>>>> As it is a Developer Build the PRODUCTNAME is "OpenOffice Developer Build"
>>>> I am pretty sure that your script works as expected with a "normal" build.
>>> Yes, this is o.k. (not the problem).
>>>
>>> The problem is that in the "Contents" directory there is no "program" 
>>> subdirectory in the developer
>>> build, rather it is named "MacOS" instead.
>> I realized that now (see my other mail)
>>> The installation script assumes on the Mac that "soffice" and "unoinfo" are 
>>> located in
>>> "/Applications/OpenOffice[ Developer Build].app/Contents/program". (If this 
>>> is intentional I would
>>> change the script accordingly.)
>> I don't think that was intentional. Let's wait for a "normal" build.
>>>> Maybe there is a possibility to get the script recognize the difference?
>>>> (the same would apply to a Beta Build)
>>>>
>>>> @Jim: Could you provide some plain mac builds?
>>>>
>>>> BTW: I always wanted to test your ooRexx extension, Rexx was my first 
>>>> "language" on OS/2.
>>> You would be surprised! ;-)
>>>
>>> Actually "Object-oriented Rexx" was created as an object-oriented 
>>> replacement of "Rexx" for OS/2
>>> Warp by IBM. The Windows version generated quite some income for IBM when 
>>> their user base switched
>>> from OS/2 to Windows and learned that there were tons of Rexx programs that 
>>> also needed to run on
>>> Windows.
>>>
>>> Later IBM handed the source code over to the non-profit SIG "Rexx Language 
>>> Association" which then
>>> released an open-source version of it under the name "Open Object Rexx" 
>>> (ooRexx) in 2005. Ever since
>>> then it got steadily improved and the current 5.0 (officially in beta but 
>>> in release quality)
>>> release is imminent.
>>>
>>> The OpenOffice plugin of ooRexx was created using the Java-bridge 
>>> "BSF4ooRexx" (Apache BSF and
>>> oo

Re: Question ad Groovy implementation (Re: Beanshell Scripting

2020-07-15 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

Hi Carl,

On 15.07.2020 01:49, Carl Marcum wrote:
> Hi Rony,
>
> On 7/14/20 10:11 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>>
... cut ...
>
> I'm planning a more formal announcement as soon as I finish the Readme's for 
> a couple of these but...
>
> There are a few inter-dependent projects.
>
> The Groovy UNO Extension [1] extends the Java UNO API's with convenience 
> methods for Groovy
> Extensions and Client apps.
> It's documentation is here [2].
> It uses Groovy's Extension mechanism to extend the UNO API's.
>
> The OpenOffice-Groovy [3] is the OpenOffice extension to add Groovy to the 
> scripting framework. It
> is heavily influenced by the built-in Beanshell.
> I'm using Groovy's GroovyShell to evaluate the script [4].
> It includes the Groovy UNO Extension.
> You can get it on Bintray here [5].
>
> The third project is OpenOffice-Groovy-Macros [6] an extension to add a lot 
> of the sample macros
> included in AOO rewritten in Groovy.
> Probably more useful copy-paste from github since you can't edit these from 
> the extension like you
> can with the built-in macros.
> You can get it on Bintray here [7].
>
> I plan to add them to the Extension site after I get some more testing done.
>
> I'm also working on an Extension project generator similar to the NetBeans 
> plugin but IDE
> independent.
> Not ready to show that one yet.
>
> I have copies of the 4.1.6 UNO jars for use by Maven, Gradle and Groovy 
> scripts in Bintray [8].
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you *very* much for your explanations and pointers! I can now 
understand/relate better what
you are up to, very interesting!

Best regards

---rony


>
> [1] https://github.com/cbmarcum/guno-extension
> [2] https://cbmarcum.github.io/guno-extension/
> [3] https://github.com/cbmarcum/openoffice-groovy
> [4] http://www.groovy-lang.org/integrating.html#integ-groovyshell
> [5] https://bintray.com/cmarcum/openoffice-extensions/openoffice-groovy#files
> [6] https://github.com/cbmarcum/openoffice-groovy-macros
> [7] 
> https://bintray.com/cmarcum/openoffice-extensions/openoffice-groovy-macros#files
> [8] https://bintray.com/cmarcum/maven


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OS/2 (Re: Question ad MacOS 4.2 Developer Build

Hi Matthias,

On 14.07.2020 16:48, Matthias Seidel wrote:
> Hi Rony,
>
> Am 14.07.20 um 16:34 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> On 14.07.2020 16:14, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>>> Am 14.07.20 um 16:03 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> yesterday I intended to test the ooRexx macro language oxt file against 
>>>> the MacOS Developer Build
>>>> (4.2) to test whether <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127966> 
>>>> is fixed.
>>>>
>>>> As the install script that has been working for more than 10 years on OO 
>>>> (and LO) failed I looked
>>>> into the cause and saw that the "soffice" (and "unoinfo") executable now 
>>>> resides in
>>>> "/Applications/OpenOffice Developer Build.app/Contents/*MacOS*/soffice" 
>>>> whereas it used to be
>>>> located in "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/*program*/soffice".
>>> As it is a Developer Build the PRODUCTNAME is "OpenOffice Developer Build"
>>> I am pretty sure that your script works as expected with a "normal" build.
>> Yes, this is o.k. (not the problem).
>>
>> The problem is that in the "Contents" directory there is no "program" 
>> subdirectory in the developer
>> build, rather it is named "MacOS" instead.
> I realized that now (see my other mail)
>> The installation script assumes on the Mac that "soffice" and "unoinfo" are 
>> located in
>> "/Applications/OpenOffice[ Developer Build].app/Contents/program". (If this 
>> is intentional I would
>> change the script accordingly.)
> I don't think that was intentional. Let's wait for a "normal" build.
>>> Maybe there is a possibility to get the script recognize the difference?
>>> (the same would apply to a Beta Build)
>>>
>>> @Jim: Could you provide some plain mac builds?
>>>
>>> BTW: I always wanted to test your ooRexx extension, Rexx was my first 
>>> "language" on OS/2.
>> You would be surprised! ;-)
>>
>> Actually "Object-oriented Rexx" was created as an object-oriented 
>> replacement of "Rexx" for OS/2
>> Warp by IBM. The Windows version generated quite some income for IBM when 
>> their user base switched
>> from OS/2 to Windows and learned that there were tons of Rexx programs that 
>> also needed to run on
>> Windows.
>>
>> Later IBM handed the source code over to the non-profit SIG "Rexx Language 
>> Association" which then
>> released an open-source version of it under the name "Open Object Rexx" 
>> (ooRexx) in 2005. Ever since
>> then it got steadily improved and the current 5.0 (officially in beta but in 
>> release quality)
>> release is imminent.
>>
>> The OpenOffice plugin of ooRexx was created using the Java-bridge 
>> "BSF4ooRexx" (Apache BSF and
>> ooRexx), which also has its roots in OS/2 believe it or not: Java played an 
>> important role for OS/2
>> and portable (even GUI) applications became possible with the Java bridge 
>> such that Rexx programs
>> developed under OS/2 ran unchanged on Windows (and vice versa).
>>
>> Today the Java bridge BSF4ooRexx is bi-directionally complete, i.e. Java 
>> classes and Java objects
>> are camouflaged as ooRexx classes and objects, sending them ooRexx messages. 
>> On the other hand Java
>> code can invoke ooRexx methods without realizing that the implementation is 
>> done in ooRexx (e.g.
>> when extending Java classes in ooRexx or implementing abstract Java methods 
>> in ooRexx).
>>
>> Like with Rexx ooRexx is a dynamically typed, interpreted language with a 
>> "human-centric" syntax,
>> such that it can be learned quite fast and programs can be understood quite 
>> easily.
>>
>> So, if you have interest and a little bit of time, it may be very worthwhile 
>> to look into it.
>> Creating ooRexx-macros and/or using OpenOffice from ooRexx programs is 
>> straight-forward and quite easy.
> If I only had the time (and knowledge)... ;-)
>
> But in fact I still use OS/2 (ArcaOS in VirtualBox) with AOO installed.

That is remarkable and great indeed!

---rony



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Re: Question ad MacOS 4.2 Developer Build

One more problem, observation: while running "unopkg" I experience the 
following error:

e:\DropBox\Dropbox\xfer\mac>type problem.txt
wu114217:Resources rony$ "/Applications/OpenOffice Developer 
Build.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg" add -f --shared /Library/Frameworks/BSF4o
oRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt
dyld: Library not loaded: @___URELIB/libuno_cppu.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/OpenOffice Developer 
Build.app/Contents/MacOS/uno.bin
  Reason: image not found

^Cwu114217:Resources ronysudo "/Applications/OpenOffice Developer 
Build.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg" add -f --shared /Library/Frameworks/
BSF4ooRexx.framework/Libraries/ScriptProviderForooRexx.oxt
dyld: Library not loaded: @___URELIB/libuno_cppu.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/OpenOffice Developer 
Build.app/Contents/MacOS/uno.bin
  Reason: image not found

The version of AOO 2.0 developer build for MacOSX was downloaded yesterday from 
Jim's site:
<https://home.apache.org/~jim/AOO-builds/>

---rony


On 14.07.2020 16:03, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> yesterday I intended to test the ooRexx macro language oxt file against the 
> MacOS Developer Build
> (4.2) to test whether <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127966> is 
> fixed.
>
> As the install script that has been working for more than 10 years on OO (and 
> LO) failed I looked
> into the cause and saw that the "soffice" (and "unoinfo") executable now 
> resides in
> "/Applications/OpenOffice Developer Build.app/Contents/*MacOS*/soffice" 
> whereas it used to be
> located in "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/*program*/soffice".
>
> Is this an oversight/bug or has the directory structure been changed (and if 
> so on all platforms)?
>
> ---rony
>

Re: Question ad MacOS 4.2 Developer Build

Hi Matthias,

On 14.07.2020 16:14, Matthias Seidel wrote:
> Am 14.07.20 um 16:03 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> yesterday I intended to test the ooRexx macro language oxt file against the 
>> MacOS Developer Build
>> (4.2) to test whether <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127966> is 
>> fixed.
>>
>> As the install script that has been working for more than 10 years on OO 
>> (and LO) failed I looked
>> into the cause and saw that the "soffice" (and "unoinfo") executable now 
>> resides in
>> "/Applications/OpenOffice Developer Build.app/Contents/*MacOS*/soffice" 
>> whereas it used to be
>> located in "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/*program*/soffice".
> As it is a Developer Build the PRODUCTNAME is "OpenOffice Developer Build"
> I am pretty sure that your script works as expected with a "normal" build.

Yes, this is o.k. (not the problem).

The problem is that in the "Contents" directory there is no "program" 
subdirectory in the developer
build, rather it is named "MacOS" instead.

The installation script assumes on the Mac that "soffice" and "unoinfo" are 
located in
"/Applications/OpenOffice[ Developer Build].app/Contents/program". (If this is 
intentional I would
change the script accordingly.)

> Maybe there is a possibility to get the script recognize the difference?
> (the same would apply to a Beta Build)
>
> @Jim: Could you provide some plain mac builds?
>
> BTW: I always wanted to test your ooRexx extension, Rexx was my first 
> "language" on OS/2.

You would be surprised! ;-)

Actually "Object-oriented Rexx" was created as an object-oriented replacement 
of "Rexx" for OS/2
Warp by IBM. The Windows version generated quite some income for IBM when their 
user base switched
from OS/2 to Windows and learned that there were tons of Rexx programs that 
also needed to run on
Windows.

Later IBM handed the source code over to the non-profit SIG "Rexx Language 
Association" which then
released an open-source version of it under the name "Open Object Rexx" 
(ooRexx) in 2005. Ever since
then it got steadily improved and the current 5.0 (officially in beta but in 
release quality)
release is imminent.

The OpenOffice plugin of ooRexx was created using the Java-bridge "BSF4ooRexx" 
(Apache BSF and
ooRexx), which also has its roots in OS/2 believe it or not: Java played an 
important role for OS/2
and portable (even GUI) applications became possible with the Java bridge such 
that Rexx programs
developed under OS/2 ran unchanged on Windows (and vice versa).

Today the Java bridge BSF4ooRexx is bi-directionally complete, i.e. Java 
classes and Java objects
are camouflaged as ooRexx classes and objects, sending them ooRexx messages. On 
the other hand Java
code can invoke ooRexx methods without realizing that the implementation is 
done in ooRexx (e.g.
when extending Java classes in ooRexx or implementing abstract Java methods in 
ooRexx).

Like with Rexx ooRexx is a dynamically typed, interpreted language with a 
"human-centric" syntax,
such that it can be learned quite fast and programs can be understood quite 
easily.

So, if you have interest and a little bit of time, it may be very worthwhile to 
look into it.
Creating ooRexx-macros and/or using OpenOffice from ooRexx programs is 
straight-forward and quite easy.

---rony

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Question ad Groovy implementation (Re: Beanshell Scripting

Hi Carl,

On 13.07.2020 22:07, Carl Marcum wrote:
... cut ...

> Currently my Groovy macro is a standalone extension.
>
> We can discuss later after I announce it's information whether it could be 
> added to the office at
> some point or left as a soon-to-be-popular extension ;)

Could you briefly explain what your extension does (e.g. generically allowing 
the implementation of
UNO classes/components in Groovy)?

---rony

P.S.: AFAIK Groovy uses Apache BSF. If so it may be helpful to look at the 
ooRexx ScriptProvider
implementation (which uses Apache BSF and which is based on the BeanShell 
implementation of the
ScriptProvider) in case you have not yet implemented the ScriptProvider part 
for Groovy.

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Question ad MacOS 4.2 Developer Build