Re: [dev] Seeking help on Ubuntu 6.10 OOo v. 2.0.4 for starting OOo via Java

2007-02-04 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Hi Caio Tiago, thank you *very* much, your directions worked right out of the book! ;) First I deinstalled the Ubuntu OOo, then followed your instructions and was able to install the genuine OOo from the OOo homepage, getting the standard installation tree on the /opt branch. Could get the Java

Re: [dev] Seeking help on Ubuntu 6.10 OOo v. 2.0.4 for starting OOo via Java

2007-02-04 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Hi Jim, You should get the Software Development Kit from your distribution or from http://api.openoffice.org, there are examples in SDK/examples/DevelopersGuide/FirstSteps This assumes, that the Java program I use would not work. However, it is a simple test-program which has been working like

[dev] Little update (Re: [dev] Seeking help on Ubuntu 6.10 OOo v. 2.0.4 for starting OOo via Java

2007-02-04 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Hi there, just wanted to report that the genuine OOo 2.1 can be invoked via Java from the command line, whereas the Ubuntu version cannot. Did remove the genuine OOo 2.1 and re-installed the Ubuntu OOo 2.0.4 version (the latest they have). The Ubuntu version places the binaries into

Re: [dev] Little update (Re: [dev] Seeking help on Ubuntu 6.10 OOo v. 2.0.4 for starting OOo via Java

2007-02-04 Thread ashok _
I am running oOo 2.1 on ubuntu... I am running the standard jdk 1.5.08 installation... everything works fine for me. I noticed that i had to explicitly enable Java in oOo after the installation, by going to tools-options-java and expicitly selecting a JVM there maybe that is the step

Re: [dev] Little update (Re: [dev] Seeking help on Ubuntu 6.10 OOo v. 2.0.4 for starting OOo via Java

2007-02-04 Thread ashok _
I noticed you were setting a whole lot of classpaths i would suggest you get hold of netbeans 6 milestone 5 IDE, and install the openoffice development plugin on top of that. It takes a lot of pain out of the openoffice development process.by detecting and setting up environment

Re: [dev] Little update (Re: [dev] Seeking help on Ubuntu 6.10 OOo v. 2.0.4 for starting OOo via Java

2007-02-04 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Hi, ashok _ wrote: I am running oOo 2.1 on ubuntu... I am running the standard jdk 1.5.08 installation... everything works fine for me. I noticed that i had to explicitly enable Java in oOo after the installation, by going to tools-options-java and expicitly selecting a JVM there

Re: [dev] Little update (Re: [dev] Seeking help on Ubuntu 6.10 OOo v. 2.0.4 for starting OOo via Java

2007-02-04 Thread ashok _
Hello Rony: I used your code to successfully build and execute an openoffice UNO client application. (See the attached code). i executed the jar file from the command line using: java -jar helloworld.jar and it launched openoffice writer and wrote the hellow world text into the editor