On Mon, 19 May 2008 05:06:57 -0500, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems
Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had no idea OOo used to be a browser. Learned something new today --
thanks! :-D
Well, strictly, it was StarOffice, OOo's ancestor - IIRC, we already
abandoned the idea of being a browser when we went open source.
Actually the browser still on by just having read-only on the web editor.
However the real shame that was gone was the E-mail client/calendar that
used to be on StarOffice 5. The components still there but they are
randomly under-utilized.
I don't have the first clue how to write a macro. I want the path to be
stored in a data field so I can have a form where you click a button and
the selected file opens. I already have a macro for the "open the file"
button that SKS posted somewhere. But I don't know how to get the path
in
there in the first place, aside from cutting and pasting it from the
File
Selection control,
I think something like doing a "setPath" on the file picker object, with
the argument being something like "form.getByName( <file_control_name>
).Text" should do.
Even then, however, the control lacks desirable features such as
specifying the list of extensions which it should browse for,
auto-completion, and the like.
Since the "open file" macro I snagged specifies the program the file
needs
to be opened with, this is a problem, since it could be a graphic, PDF
or
even an OOo doc. I guess I need to look some more and try to find a
macro
that doesn't specify a program, but uses the system default for the file
extension.
This sounds as if your dialog browser for executables, in which case it
is probably perfectly okay to not have a filter at all.
What I was thinking about was a file selection control which should
offer to browse, for instance, for *.pdf files only, or something like
this. In this case, you would want to specify this "*.pdf" as the
property of the file control, so the file picker then would show PDF
files only.
Ciao
Frank
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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