You can do an add-on that open a socket and read the data from your
application. There are some tutorials on doing this on the development
guide.
Although not very secure, this tutorial tells you the basic of a listener
or deamon that would receive commands from external applications
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Deamon_in_Python
Although old this is a tutorial on how it works:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Shukla, Mangesh <
mangesh.shu...@siemens.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
> I am new to OpenOffice development and need some ideas on the
> following implementation. I am working on an C++ application which needs
> to interact with OpenOffice.org. The interaction will comprise of
> populating data in the spreadsheet application. The Calc application is
> intended to be used as UI for displaying values to the user, and allowing
> him to make changes. This interaction between the C++ application is
> required on Windows, Linux and Mac as well.
>
> I have the following questions:
> 1] I think I need to implement a UNO component which will implement a
> service to handle the interactions with the OpenOffice Calc application.
> This UNO component will be compiled as a shared library. My question is how
> does a C++ application interact with the shared library of the component.
>
> 2] I also need inputs on how I can pass function pointers (in the C++
> application) during the Add-On menu creation, so that they get called when
> the user clicks on the Add-on menu items.
>
> Please let me know if you need more inputs.
>
> Thanks,
> Mangesh.
>
>
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