, 23:35, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Is there any way, in OOo BASIC, to create something like a vector or linked
list or anything that gives me something like an array that I can keep
adding elements to? (Everything I found with an array indicated it has to
be declared with a set number of members
Is there any way, in OOo BASIC, to create something like a vector or linked
list or anything that gives me something like an array that I can keep adding
elements to? (Everything I found with an array indicated it has to be declared
with a set number of members.)
Thanks!
Hal--
I've mentioned the sticky-note project I'm working on yesterday in two emails.
Now I'm running into a problem: I'd like to display a number of sticky-notes,
but to display any kind of dialog in BASIC, I need to do something like this:
oSticky =
I kind of had to drop the idea of displaying the note titles in the menu for a
number of reasons.
Thanks, anyway!
Hal
On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Oliver Brinzing wrote:
Hi Hal,
From what I remember, to add things to a sub menu, I have to do that by
hand.
Am I wrong? Is there a
On Jun 16, 2011, at 3:30 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
Hal ,
Y ou can set a Dialogcontrol visible or not , but we need a timeloop to keep
it visible
Am I right, then, in assuming that the time loop is there because once that
particular instance of the script terminates, the dialog
This leads to a couple other questions:
1) On the CloseDialog() subroutine, if I want to execute it from a button in
the dialog, how can I pass the dialog itself to the routine?
2) Is there any way to run a macro when the X on the title bar of the dialog
is clicked?
Thanks!
Hal
On Jun 16,
On Jun 16, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
On 16/06/2011 10:20, Hal Vaughan wrote:
This leads to a couple other questions:
1) On the CloseDialog() subroutine, if I want to execute it from a button in
the dialog, how can I pass the dialog itself to the routine?
you can add
I've been using this macro for a good while:
sub CharacterName
Dim oDoc As Object
Dim oDispatch As Object
BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary(HalLib)
HalLib.AutoTextMacro.InsertAutoMacroText()
Margin4()
' MsgBox Debug 1
oDoc =
On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:35 AM, Bernard Marcelly wrote:
Hi,
Message de Hal Vaughan date 2011-06-15 07:23 :
While looking through the reference, I can find info on getting and storing
text fields in a document in com.sun.star.text.FieldMaster.User, where I can
name a text field and save
I haven't been using the API for a while and I'm working on a macros in OO
Basic.
From what I remember, to add things to a sub menu, I have to do that by hand.
Am I wrong? Is there a way, using OO Basic to add items to a sub menu?
I'm creating a sticky-note program that will let me make
While looking through the reference, I can find info on getting and storing
text fields in a document in com.sun.star.text.FieldMaster.User, where I can
name a text field and save the data.
I don't find anything telling me if there is a limit to how long such a field
can be. I think I
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
It seems the API list is the best place to ask this.
Without going into details, I'm creating a system I need to be able to lock
down. It'll have OpenOffice on it, but I need to restrict OOo users to
loading and saving only from one directory
It seems the API list is the best place to ask this.
Without going into details, I'm creating a system I need to be able to lock
down. It'll have OpenOffice on it, but I need to restrict OOo users to loading
and saving only from one directory (or any sub directories they create). Is
this
So can I safely assume that there is no version of OOo that can run on Linux
without X Windows running at the same time?
Hal
On Jul 22, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
This isn't exactly right under API, but it's for more advanced and
programming use, so I think this is probably
documentation on this? I'm
not quite sure what search terms to use on the OOo website. Just X isn't
going to help!
And thanks! That, alone, could help me make some major changes that could make
things work MUCH better with what I'm doing.
Hal
Juergen
On 7/27/10 4:53 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote
This isn't exactly right under API, but it's for more advanced and programming
use, so I think this is probably the best group for these questions.
I have a small business and have been using OpenOffice in it for a while. I
generate reports for my clients with data that I process. On their
I have an OOo BASIC macro routine Screenwriting.AllScripts.CharacterName() and
it calls HalLib.AutoTextMacro.InsertAutoMacroText(). Normally there is no
problem with this, but when I first start OOo, then open the screenplay I'm
writing, and press a key that calls
On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Laurent Godard wrote:
Hi
may be have a look at BasicLibraries.loadLibrary
here is a rough example
Laurent
function loadMyLib(optional pwd)
if isMissing(pwd) then
pwd = false
endif
if not
else where I could have just checked the result of goLeft(). I may re-
write it, but that breaks a person coding rule of mine: If it ain't
broke, don't fix it. (I've spend WAY too much of my life in front of
a CRT writing code!)
Hal
Regards - Cor
Hal Vaughan wrote (26-6-2009 17:19)
I
On Jun 27, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Bernard Marcelly wrote:
Hi Hal,
Message de Hal Vaughan date 2009-06-26 08:41 :
Sub InsertAutoMacroText
oDoc = ThisComponent
oCurs = oDoc.getCurrentController().getViewCursor()
iEnd = false
iCount = 0
Do
'Go back one character, then get
On Jun 26, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Hal,
Hal Vaughan wrote (26-6-2009 8:41)
[...]
The only problem with this is if I do this at the start of a
document I end up with a null character or something instead and I
can't do a comparison on it. So is there some way, after moving
On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
when len(sChar) = 0 then you get the error
I had been checking for what sChar is, but kept forgetting to check
for it's length. Thanks.
I also realized I had made another goof. I intended to limit the
length of key phrases to 32
new key phrases and replacement texts in
a hurry and they are stored in the document, but can be exported to a
text file and imported in another document, so they are document
specific but can be transferred.
Hal
On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I have a macro collection
I have a macro collection I've posted about before. It works like the
AutoCorrect function, but I've customized it for me. If I hit Ctrl-
Shift-T (actually Command-Shift-T since I'm now on an iMac), I get a
dialog that lets me define a key phrase and the AutoText that goes
with it. Then
I've finished the macros I've been working on. When I look
back ,they're not too complicated, but the hard part was finding out
how to do what I needed to. It was about as tough for me as learning
Java when I first started because it takes a while to get used to the
Basic API and, at least
I am close to finished with the macros I'm working on. I've created one
that makes it easy for me to start a new script -- I can never remember
things like where to put the title and the simple stuff, so this asks
me the script title and makes a new directory for it, makes a file from
a
A couple file related questions:
1) I'm working on Linux, but I want this to work on Windows as well.
When I concatenate a file name I have to use / to separate
directories. Is there a way I can specify something like
Java's File.separator that will be translated appropriately depending
on
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
A couple file related questions:
1) I'm working on Linux, but I want this to work on Windows as
well. When I concatenate a file name I have to use / to separate
directories. Is there a way I can specify
I recorded a macro to select text, copy it to the keyboard, then to
enter a new character. In the long run, I'm going to want a macro that
selects the character before the cursor, then reads in that character
so I can use it to compare to something else. When I'm done, I'd
delete that
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Am Montag, den 14.07.2008, 23:39 -0400 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
I still
haven't figured out how to make macros document specific -- is it
as simple as specifying the name of the document for the storage
library?
In the selection windows
Could someone at least verify if they're having the same trouble with
this in 2.x or 2.3?
Thanks!
Hal
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I originally posted this to the General group a day ago, but the more
I think about it, the more I think people here would be more likely
to know
On Monday 14 July 2008, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Hal,
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm using OOo 2.3 on Ubuntu Linux.
I have macros that change the paragraph margin indents and want
them to be called from specific autotext events, but it's not
working. I've defined
On Monday 14 July 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Hi Hal,
Am Montag, den 14.07.2008, 15:40 -0400 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
I think I'm going to switch over to a different idea which involves
my own form of auto-text using macros. One thing I want to do is
keep 4 main macros that are available from
I want to do a few things with a dialog from Basic other than just get
the values of some controls.
I can find references for using dialogs and objects from Java, but I
can't find the API reference for OOo Basic. My guess is that this
reference will answer all my questions.
1) I'd like to be
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Oliver Brinzing wrote:
Hi Hal,
I want to do a few things with a dialog from Basic other than just
get the values of some controls.
maybe this helps:
Okay, so to create an event handler for a control in a dialog, I have to
do it in the XML for the dialog itself, is
don't have to play the dual-editor game where I make changes in
one editor then have to update the version in the text editor as well.
Thanks!
Hal
bye
Christoph
Hal Vaughan schrieb:
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Oliver Brinzing wrote:
Hi Hal,
I want to do a few things with a dialog from Basic
own browser routine, but for now there are other
points to work on and I'm hoping it's something overly simple that I've
missed.
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I want to do a few things with a dialog from Basic other than just
get the values of some controls.
I can find
I originally posted this to the General group a day ago, but the more I
think about it, the more I think people here would be more likely to
know how to deal with it. Like the one outstanding issue I'm having
with the dialog in Basic (the file browser won't browse), it looks like
this should
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Christoph Jopp wrote:
Hal Vaughan schrieb:
(...)
3) The File Browser control doesn't open up any kind of browsing
function when I click on Browse. That would force me to type in
all file paths by hand.
This still does not work and is the one outstanding issue
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Christoph Jopp wrote:
Hal Vaughan schrieb:
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Christoph Jopp wrote:
Hal Vaughan schrieb:
(...)
3) The File Browser control doesn't open up any kind of browsing
function when I click on Browse. That would force me to type
in all file
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2008, 20:11 -0400 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
There is a catch, of course: I want to select a directory, not a
file, and it won't let me do that!
So you probably want to exchange the css.ui.dialogs.FilePicker for
a .FolderPicker
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2008, 21:10 -0400 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2008, 20:11 -0400 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
There is a catch, of course: I want to select a directory, not
a file
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
...
I have wondered about using an F key instead of a key combination.
For example, there are some F keys that aren't used. I thought at
one point I had found a way to make OOo listen after a keypress.
In other words, I could type
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
...
This next part may be off because it's been so long since I've been
able to sit down and write in an actual word processor, so I don't
remember if OOo uses the ALT key for any commands, but let's assume
what I am able
to do and how it works.
Both answers are much appreciated!
Hal
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I used to have some rather advanced stuff set up in OOoBASIC, but
that was back before 2004. I have use the API from Java to do some
work as well. It's been a good while
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I wondered if it was the same Hal :-)
Yes. Originally my plans were to do an application completely in
OOBasic, but that never worked out because I needed some functions that
weren't available, such as reliable (and preferably
that
allow saving or renaming or manipulating macros?
And, on that point, when I'm running OOo and use something that needs
Java, does the JVM stay loaded so if it's needed again there isn't a
delay?
Hal
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I used to have some rather advanced stuff set up
On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Andreas Schlüns wrote:
Hello Hal Vaughan,
Oh, and I am using XCloseable.close(true) to close a document.
mmm ... in my last mail I've mentioned to use close(false) .-)
It's always better to errors on closing documents by yourself instead
of delivering
On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Andreas Schlüns wrote:
Hello Hal ,
2) How can I keep the Document Recovery Window from popping up
and get Java to throw an error instead?
You can disable the whole recovery stuff be passing an option
-norecovery to your command line if you start the
On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Andreas Schlüns wrote:
Hello Hal,
Here's the weird part: On this client's computer, when I get the
recovery window, OOo is STILL running and if I close that window,
my program can still connect to OOo.
You must differ between the crash save and the recover
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Andreas Schlüns wrote:
Hello Tobias Hal
I think I've been told, and likely here, that in 2.0.x, print
listeners like this are no longer necessary, but I'm having a bit
of a problem searching and finding this comment and what the
background is.
In 2.0.x,
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Andreas Schlüns wrote:
Hello Hal,
The real problem you have ... printing is by default an
asynchronous operation. And of course - if you try to dispose a
document which is currently in printing state it can crash (at
least it shouldnt ... but it can).
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Tobias Krais wrote:
Hi Andreas,
So I can set a print option of Wait to true and my program
will wait until the document is printed? Do I understand that
properly? That would simplify several questions I've had along the
way.
It makes your
The problem is still going on and I thought I had the perfect solution.
I thought it was the print listener or there was a problem with an
extra thread I started that did NOTHING but watch to make sure a call
to OOo completed.
This is on a Windows XP system with 2 CPUs. (Is that part of the
Sorry to post an obnoxious Urgent comment in the header, but I'm
online with a client's computer through VNC and if it's at all possible
I need to resolve this problem while online.
When I wrote my Java program that interfaces with OOo, I was using
1.0.x. All I'm doing is loading a file,
On Monday 10 September 2007, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Sorry to post an obnoxious Urgent comment in the header, but I'm
online with a client's computer through VNC and if it's at all
possible I need to resolve this problem while online.
When I wrote my Java program that interfaces with OOo, I
On Monday 10 September 2007, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Sorry to post an obnoxious Urgent comment in the header, but I'm
online with a client's computer through VNC and if it's at all
possible I need to resolve this problem while online.
...
I think I've been told, and likely here, that in 2.0.x
On Monday 10 September 2007, Tobias Krais wrote:
Hi Hal,
I've found I *have* to have a print listener and watch for when the
document is done printing.
Here's more detail on what's happening (sorry for things being
fragmented, but I'm under tremendous pressure to solve this). This
On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Juergen Schmidt wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I hope this is a simple and quick question. I have a program I
wrote in Java to work with OpenOffice.org back while it was in
version 1.0 and 1.1. At that point, doing anything with the API
was quite complex. All I
I hope this is a simple and quick question. I have a program I wrote in
Java to work with OpenOffice.org back while it was in version 1.0 and
1.1. At that point, doing anything with the API was quite complex.
All I have to do is:
- open a doc
- print that doc
- close the doc
- quite OOo
I know this isn't exactly an API issue, but it's close, it involves
config, which I tend to see as part of the API, and it's a Linux issue
and in the past (even though it was years ago) it seemed to me there
were more Linux users here who could answer questions than on other
groups.
I have a
it with simple command line arguments!).
I take it that the printing issues are the same if I want to just
convert it to, say, some PDF files?
Hal
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I look into this every now and then. I've been searching Google
for a Java class that will print ODF files without using
I look into this every now and then. I've been searching Google for a
Java class that will print ODF files without using OpenOffice. While
this isn't a must have it would make some of my software I have for
my clients a little easier to deal with.
Has anyone seen a Java class or jar that
On Monday 14 May 2007 04:58, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote:
...
I've wondered if it might be a multiple clients issue (and here it
makes it hard to keep track, since we're talking about
server/clients and my business clients, so I'll use client apps
to refer to the non-human
On Thursday 10 May 2007 04:24, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote:
Hal,
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Thursday 10 May 2007 03:12, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
wrote:
Hi guys,
if you are stumbling over deadlocks in OOo, it would be nice if
you can submit issues for that, ideally
On Friday 28 April 2006 07:58, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 19:51 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Thursday 27 April 2006 19:29, Gerrit Jasper wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I asked this as part of another thread and did not get a clear
answer, so I'm hoping asking
I asked this as part of another thread and did not get a clear answer,
so I'm hoping asking it as a specific thread will help.
I am installing my own application on computers and it needs OOo to run.
I want to be able to check the version of OOo on that system if it
exists. On Linux, that's
On Thursday 27 April 2006 19:29, Gerrit Jasper wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I asked this as part of another thread and did not get a clear
answer, so I'm hoping asking it as a specific thread will help.
I am installing my own application on computers and it needs OOo to
run. I want
This isn't strictly API, but I figure it's a good place to ask.
I am using a program that installs my own application and OOo. The
problem is I need OOo 2.0 and have to be able to check any existing
instance of OOo on the target computer and see what version it is. I
know usually you can
On Sunday 23 April 2006 06:34, Bernard Marcelly wrote:
Bonjour Hal Vaughan
I have recently filed an issue on this problem
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64345
IMHO it is a defect that it is now impossible to know the exact
version number, since there are new
On Sunday 23 April 2006 17:02, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 23.04.2006, 11:52 -0400 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
On Sunday 23 April 2006 06:34, Bernard Marcelly wrote:
Bonjour Hal Vaughan
I have recently filed an issue on this problem
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 08:42 am, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Monday 09 January 2006 01:42 pm, Mathias Bauer wrote:
I think you are wrong here. Especially on Windows the new installer is a
big step into the right direction. And AFAIK it *is* possible to create
response
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:35 am, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Marc Santhoff wrote:
It worked without any problems before, but now it isn't working. I
changed the 3rd line so it would put // at the start of the line
instead of / so it would change from file:/ to file:// just in case,
but no
I just wanted to say thanks for the quick help and replies this past week. I
have a Java application that was using OOo 1.x and I needed to see how much
effort it would take to upgrade to 2.x (it was either that or use 1.1.5). I
thought, when the time came to actually upgrade to 2.x, that it
I have a section of code that worked fine in 1.1.x and does not work in 2.x.x.
I keep getting the error:
com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URL seems to be an unsupported
one.
(I'd paste in code here, but it seems clear that this is a URL problem, and
not something else.)
I've been
Another upgrade question:
I have a point in my Java program where I print out a lot of files in a
directory. It would be nice to speed this process up as quickly as possible.
With OOo 1.x, I found I had problems if I didn't add a print listener.
Basically I'd do this:
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