Re: [dev] Print PDF using OpenOffice

2007-02-27 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, As Andreas already said this is not possible this would need OO to import the PDF which is not possible currently. If you are running Linux you can use can maybe use KWord which has an import filter for PDF files. Tom Rui Lima schrieb: :( that i don't know. But i would like that

Re: [dev] Formats Supported by OpenOffice 2.1

2007-02-27 Thread Tom Schindl
Andreas Schlüns schrieb: Dyego Souza Dantas Leal schrieb: In the Code: XStorable xStorable = (XStorable)UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XStorable.class, xDoc); PropertyValue[] storeProps = new PropertyValue[1]; storeProps[0] = new PropertyValue();

Re: [dev] First release of the PengYou project

2006-12-14 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi Jérémy, I testes the whole system and really looks promising (I'd like to include the whole in our SWT-Application). Might I suggest that you set up a mailing list to ask questions. I saw the webform at your the homepage but a mailing list or newsgroup would be a really great thing to ask

Re: [dev] UNO component language....java vs python

2006-10-31 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, Stephan Bergmann schrieb: ashok _ wrote: Hello there: I need to write a UNO component - I am familiar with Java and Python - I am attracted by the ease and the scripting paradigm of python - but the support in openoffice for Java appears to be better? I have a feeling that the python

Re: [dev] Set default posSize for new created Windows

2006-07-19 Thread Tom Schindl
You could add this Snippet to our collection: http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/ Tom Christoph Lutz schrieb: Hi Carsten, On 7/14/06, Carsten Driesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can see that the configuration set Factories contains nodes for every appplication module, in the

Re: [dev] Toolbar button added using Addon not enabled

2006-07-11 Thread Tom Schindl
This question is better answered at dev@api.openoffice.org Tom signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [dev] Re: [documentation-dev] creating Excel files

2006-07-04 Thread Tom Schindl
Dave Calkins schrieb: Niklas Nebel wrote: Dave Calkins wrote: I'd like to be able to export to an Excel file from my app which will be running in a shop floor environment on a machine which would not have MS Office or Open Office installed. Why don't you just install OOo and control it

Re: [dev] Re: [documentation-dev] creating Excel files

2006-07-04 Thread Tom Schindl
Do you really need to get xls why not PDF? Do people have to change things afterwards? Tom Dave Calkins schrieb: Tom Schindl wrote: either. Which is why we're looking for something to let us directly write the binary file format and OOo seemed liked a good possibility. Did you

[dev] Adding custom Tags into ODF

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
[repost from before but I have posted with wrong E-Mail-Address] I'm facing the problem that I have to generate complex reports in ODF-Format and chose to use a templating-lib named freemarker. After having inserted freemarker directives the document could not be loaded any more using OpenOffice.

[dev] Adding my own tags into ODF-Format

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, I'm in the situation that I have to create complex reports using OpenOffice. I choose to use a templating lib named freemarker (www.freemarker.org) and leave OpenOffice as the designer. The problem is that after I have filled in my freemarker tags I can not open the document any more in

Re: [dev] Adding my own tags into ODF-Format

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Éric Bischoff schrieb: Le Jeudi 29 Juin 2006 09:41, Tom Schindl a écrit : Hi, I'm in the situation that I have to create complex reports using OpenOffice. I choose to use a templating lib named freemarker (www.freemarker.org) and leave OpenOffice as the designer. The problem is that after I

Re: [dev] Adding my own tags into ODF-Format

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Tom, Tom Schindl wrote: Hi, I'm in the situation that I have to create complex reports using OpenOffice. I choose to use a templating lib named freemarker I would expect it to be a pleasure ;-) (www.freemarker.org) and leave OpenOffice as the designer. The problem is that after I have

Re: [dev] Adding my own tags into ODF-Format

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Éric Bischoff schrieb: Le Jeudi 29 Juin 2006 16:18, Yeatts, Garnett W. CONTR J9C329 a écrit : Most of the foreign elements and markers are lost when the file is saved. I am also interested in adding some custom attributes or information to ODF files. Is there a recommended way of adding

Re: [dev] Adding my own tags into ODF-Format

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Niklas Nebel schrieb: Tom Schindl wrote: thanks for your reply I think the easiest soltion would use the attribute way described in the last mail I sent. Is it allowed to have custom attributes in ODF? Do you just want to load the file, ignoring the extra content, or do you need

Re: [dev] Adding my own tags into ODF-Format

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Niklas Nebel schrieb: Tom Schindl wrote: From your mail i got the feeling that this is not possible at the moment in OpenOffice. Wouldn't it be a simple to restore this non-odf values e.g. as strings next to the object and insert them back when saving the object (I know this is not so easy

Re: [dev] Adding my own tags into ODF-Format

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Niklas Nebel schrieb: Tom Schindl wrote: Well ok let's see whether I understood it. You are talking about style.xml: -8- office:automatic-styles -8- or about contex.xml -8- style:style style:name=ce1 style:family

Re: [dev] Warum OOo

2006-06-19 Thread Tom Schindl
Please note that we discuss in english in this forum. Tom Heinz W. Simoneit schrieb: Hallo @all (Bernhard ?), da war 'mal ein Projekt Warum OOo oder ähnlich angedacht. Ich habe eine Art Startseite in Erinnerung, mit der verschiedene Anwendungsbereiche (Ausbildung, KMU, Non-Profit...)

Re: [dev] Changing the default Java for OOo from command line

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, Well if you are on linux a simple sed command could change the used JDK or am I missing something. This could surely done also on win32 but I have no idea on win32-scripting. The information is stored on my system in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~tom/.openoffice/user/config/javasettings_Linux_x86.xml

Re: [dev] Changing the default Java for OOo from command line

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Schindl
Well if I'm not completely mistaken you only need to modify the path to the jre used by openoffice don't you? I have no sed commando available at the moment but because I'm better in perl here's a one liner (this is even cross-platform as it's perl :-) : 8 perl -e

Re: [dev] Changing the default Java for OOo from command line

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Schindl
Well I could only second Tobias that if you are adminstrating clients via e.g. an ssh-session it would be great if you would not need to use the GUI to change your clients Java configuration without forwarding your X for example. Tom Joachim Lingner schrieb: Tom Schindl wrote: Hi, Well

Re: [dev] Problem to create a predefined Query

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, you should ask this kind of question at dev@api.openoffice.org or users@dba.openoffice.org Tom Stefan Schmid schrieb: Hello! I'm working on this problem for a long time now, but I can't get a solution. Maybe someone can help me. I want to add a new QueryDefinition to the

Re: [dev] Seeking help for Microsoft Excel File Format

2006-05-29 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, have you considered using jakarta-poi? have you considered using UNO-API and loading your XLS into OO and extract pictures using OO-API? Tom 刘俊峰 schrieb: Hello, I want to import images in some Excel files to a database. I already build a parser to read and analyze records based on

Re: [dev] Problem inserting textfield

2006-05-25 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, you should ask this question on dev@api.openoffice.org and if you provide the line failing with the exception it surely helps to find a solution. Tom James White wrote: Hi all, I have being trying to implement the code below (from developers guide p.548) and I constantly run into

Re: [dev] need some informations

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Schindl
Sad enough there's no perl-binding for UNO there have been effords but I think none of them ever reached the goal. But if you know other languges like e.g.: - Python - Java you can create such PPT-Files using the UNO-API of OpenOffice. For more information take a look into the dev-guide[1]. You

Re: [dev] Help to Start

2006-05-15 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, it depends on the task you want to fullfill. OpenOffice itself is C/C++ but if you only want to write addons, ... you could choose from multiple languages: - C/C++ - JavaScript - Python - Java - OOBasic - ... Fetch the dev-guide from here (1) and when you have questions about the API please

Re: [dev] Re: open office drawings

2006-05-12 Thread Tom Schindl
You need to learn the UNO-API (http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html) and if you have questions don't hesitate to ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Franco A. Bignone wrote: Hello ! I am new to this list and I would like to ask a question. I have been using the 'drawing'

Re: [dev] Using pdf output filters from Java

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Schindl
A good starting point might be here: http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Office/Office.ConvertDocuments.snip Tom Paul Edmondson wrote: Hi, I'm having problems saving documents using the various PDF output filters from a Java servlet and after reading through all the examples and

Re: [dev] java swing application as AddOn

2006-04-26 Thread Tom Schindl
Or simply take a look at this snippet: http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Office/Office.CallingJavaFromOOBasic.snip Tom Tom Schindl wrote: You need to write an OpenOffice-Service take a look into the SDK and Dev-Guide you can retrieve from http://api.openoffice.org. Tom Yves

Re: [dev] scripted multiplatform .doc to .html conversion

2006-04-20 Thread Tom Schindl
should know about or is it just about finding some appropriate API documentation and doing the fairly obvious things? This was a great first step, many thanks! -Kirk On 4/19/06, Tom Schindl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there's a fully functional codesnippet available which does show

Re: [dev] scripted multiplatform .doc to .html conversion

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, there's a fully functional codesnippet available which does show how document-conversion can happen. http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Office/Office.ConvertDocuments.snip If you are running this from a J2EE application you need to take into consideration that ***one*** OO-Instance

Re: [dev] Implementing Document Restrictions in Star Office and Open Office

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Schindl
Why not simply creating a Issue and attaching the document and posting the IT-ID ;-) To Mathias Bauer wrote: Hi Valden, Valden Longhurst wrote: After talking with Malte Timmermann from Sun, he mentioned I might want to bring my ideas to this group. Is this the correct group for this

Re: [dev] [Fwd: [users] start openoffice 2.0 as server under windows]

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Schindl
You may have a look at: http://udk.openoffice.org/python/oood/ Tom Karl Pitrich wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:32 +0200, Andreas Höhmann wrote: how many parallel request can oo handle? none (in a stable manner) is it usefull to start more than one openoffice with different

Re: [dev] Client Side Code Help

2006-03-22 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, you are talking about OO-API-Usage so dev@api.openoffice.org might be a better place to ask. Even checkout the Dev-Guide for information about the OpenOffice-UNO-API. http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html Tom Kris Mele wrote: Hello, I was wondering if someone

Re: [dev] To OpenOffice Developer:

2006-03-22 Thread Tom Schindl
If that's really a bug file it to to issue-zilla. Tom

Re: [dev] First Winner Developer Article Contest!

2006-03-15 Thread Tom Schindl
Somehow your URL has been mangled by your E-Mail Programm: http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/cbosdonnat.html Tom Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, Cédric Bosdonnat has been chosen OpenOffice.org's first winner of the monthly Developer Article Contest. Congratulations! Cédric's winning

Re: [dev] OO report issue

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, well first of that's the wrong forum to discuss Base you should ask your question on the dba-subproject. Nevertheless OOs reporting capabilities are very low depending but maybe its sufficient for your needs. Another idea is to look at other java-technologies: - http://jasperreports.sf.net

Re: [dev] Service,interface and property descriptions for UnoObject on runtime

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Schindl
of but can we move the discussion about this on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are much more people reading and dicussing API-Topics than here ;-) Post your code to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Vincenzo Giuliano wrote: Hi Tom, I have a class java, named Descriptor, which gets a description of

Re: [dev] Re: Re: Re: TextField (Title,Subject,Comments, etc.)

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi Vincenzo, I've added the snippet to our collection with some minor tweaks (added links to IDL-Docs, imports, ...). You can find your snippet here: http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.ReadDocumentProperties.snip Tom

Re: [dev] Need developer guidance or redirection!

2006-02-15 Thread Tom Schindl
I think the dev@api.openoffice.org is more appropriate for this type of question. I'd say that a XKeyListener is what you are looking for but I'm not sure: http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/XKeyListener.html

Re: [dev] Re: Re: TextField (Title,Subject,Comments, etc.)

2006-02-15 Thread Tom Schindl
Could you please submit this small piece of code to our snippet collection? http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/ http://www.paolo-mantovani.org/ Tom

Re: [dev] Adding menus / menu items at Runtime

2006-02-14 Thread Tom Schindl
Couldn't you package this as an Code-Snippet. Using Paolos Snippet-Creator found here this would take less than a minute ;-) http://www.paolo-mantovani.org/ Tom Carsten Driesner wrote: Tobias Krais wrote: Hi together, since some weeks I'm developing a little OpenOffice connector for a

Re: [dev] Newbie: com.sun.star.comp.helper.BootstrapException: no office executable found!

2006-01-16 Thread Tom Schindl
No. It's not you have to access the file directly and because its XML you can easily read it using Java ;-). I've just kicked off a opensource-project aiming at this using Java it's in the very very very early stages and I'm concentrating on calc documents at the moment. If you are interested

Re: [dev] [SOLVED] Re: [dev] Newbie: com.sun.star.comp.helper.BootstrapException: no office executable found!

2006-01-16 Thread Tom Schindl
Well normally ooffice, oowriter, ... are bash-scripts or even perl (on mandrake) starting soffice to popup the appropriate OpenOffice-Application. On Mandrake for example one would have to same problem because: ooffice2.0 does the following: 8 #!/usr/bin/perl -w

Re: [dev] libs for Open Standard Document Format?

2006-01-02 Thread Tom Schindl
Tom Schindl wrote: Hi, I've started writing such a lib. I've started with the OOSpreadsheet format what I'm trying for now is to stay as compatible with POI as possible. If you are interested in this I could post the URL to the subversion repository. Oh. What I've forgotten is that I'm

Re: [dev] Install-Macros on OO2

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Schindl
Helmut Seidel wrote: hello everybody, i've got another question which is of importance for me: i developed several applications (partly commercial - that means password protected) in oo-basic. up to now it is quite difficult to install them on customer computers (partly windows, partly linux) -

Re: [dev] Install-Macros on OO2

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Schindl
ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Helmut Seidel wrote: hello tom, that may well be(?) - is there anywhere a description/howto of unopkg? thanks helmut Tom Schindl schrieb: Helmut Seidel wrote: hello everybody, i've got another question which is of importance for me: i developed several applications

Re: [dev] edit toolbar via OOBasic in OO2

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Schindl
Ask at dev@api.openoffice.org where people don't discuss OO development but API things. Tom Helmut Seidel wrote: hello again, i've read that it is possible to edit toolbars and menus in oo2 via the api. has anybody got an example haw to do this? thank you again helmut

Re: [dev] New Add-On

2005-03-07 Thread Tom Schindl
[...] Have you considered an incubator project http://incubator.openoffice.org/ or submitting your code to the codesnippet project http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/ ? Codesnippets is not the right place for such large projects like addons its here to show small programming exercises.

Re: [dev] New user of postgresql drivers

2005-01-24 Thread Tom Schindl
Now my first question, I need to add actions to some of the fields, I can see how to do that from the control window but I need more help with the actual 'programming' of the macros. So where can I find documentation on the Macros? http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Database/oobasic.xml