Hi Terry, I did not intend my comment to apply to you personally but to the OO developers in general. Please point me to where I should be submitting my comments and I will do that.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Open Office relative path vs. hard coded path. OO 2.0.1 is broke I agree. I think you misunderstand my place in the scheme of things. I am but a humble user myself. Could you perhaps apply your passion to supporting any issue which has been filed, or filing one if there is none? Since I do not operate in presentation mode, any suggestion I make is likely to be way off track. Bob Treder wrote: > Thank you Terry. > > I appologize if this is not the forum to express the following opinion, but > it's a shame that an important feature like this is not working and > apparently has not been for some time. In one of the messages on this thread > a user says he is stuck at 1.1.5 because of it. There have been many > improvements since then in Impress that I know about. > > FYI, I am trying to promote OO in my work office whis is dominated by MS > software. I find OO Impress much easier to work in than PowerPoint and have > been developing materials using it. I am now starting a new project which > will be a richly hyperlinked document with links to help files and Flash > movies created with Wink to demonstrate GUI operations. It will make it > difficult to promote and use these materials without relative links. > > I love what OO stands for and is providing to the software world. I just wish > that features important to the application which may not be all that > interesting to work on were given a higher priority by those of you who are > developing the code. > > Hoping you will rethink priorities, > > Bob > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Open Office relative path vs. hard coded path. OO 2.0.1 > is broke > > Hi, Bob. You would have to insert a spreadsheet into the presentation > (or include a spreadsheet in the group of files) in order to take > advantage of that method. > > I'm at a disadvantage there because I do not use presentations. I've > just checked, though, and there is a menu command Insert >Spreadsheet. > Perhaps the inserted spreadsheet could be an index? > > You will not find anything in Help. This was a method devised by > someone to work around the lack in the software. > > A hyperlink in a spreadsheet can be created with a formula. The formula > can refer to other cells containing components of the link. Instead of > the =DDE mentioned in other messages in the thread, you would use the > =HYPERLINK function. > > It is not the ideal method but I know of no other. Look back through > the thread for further information. > > > Bob Treder wrote: > >> Could someone please explain how to use the named references? I've tried >> looking in help but have been unsuccessful. I am building Impress documents >> and need to create relative paths which are still broken in OO 2.0.3. I >> insert icons in the document that are hyperlinked to other documents. I >> create the hyperlinks by right clicking on the icon image and selecting >> "Interaction...". That opens a dialog with a list box of different options. >> > I > >> select "Go to Document" and then browse to and select the document which >> fills in the document URL. That is filled in as an absolute. Where in this >> process can I use the named references indicated below to produce relative >> paths? Or what other process do I use? >> >> I will be most grateful for a solution to this. >> >> Bob >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:19 PM >> To: [email protected]; Bob Treder >> Subject: Re: [users] Open Office relative path vs. hard coded path. OO >> > 2.0.1 > >> is broke >> >> On Sat October 7 2006 09:39, + Bob Treder wrote: >> >> >>> [ MODERATED ] ******************** >>> It looks like this is still broken in OO 2.0.3. I'm developing some >>> training materials in Impress and badly need relative paths to make >>> > passing > >>> of materials work from wherever they are installed. Does anyone have a >>> suggestion on how to work around this? Everytime I create the link in >>> Impress, even with the two boxes checked that a mentioned in the messages >>> below the full path gets saved. >>> >>> >> As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: >> On Sun October 8 2006 01:01, Terry wrote: >> >> >>> You could use the following methods published by an expert Spreadsheet >>> user on the forum: >>> >>> [quote] >>> Some named refs from my default template. No macros, >>> platform-independant and they should work with Excel as well: >>> cFilename =CELL("FILENAME") >>> FilePath =RIGHT(FileURLPath;LEN(FileURLPath)-7) >>> FileURL =MID(cFilename;2;SEARCH("'#";cFilename)-2) >>> FileURLPath =MID(cFilename;2;SEARCH("/[^/]+'#";cFilename)-1) >>> shSep =MID(ADDRESS(1;1;1;"Foo");4;1) >>> ThisSheet =MID(cFilename;FIND("#$";cFilename)+2;256) >>> >>> shSep returns "." in Calc and "!" in Excel (useful with indirect() or >>> pattern matching with/without regular expressions). >>> "FilePath" with Windows: =SUBSTITUTE(FilePath;"/";"\") >>> [end quote] >>> >>> >> Please reply to [email protected] only. >> > > -- If you're seeking, check out http://www.rci.org.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
