a Macro for granma

Martmel · General User Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 14

Hi all, I'm new in this forum
And I'd like to build simplified "open" and "save" dialog boxes for my grand mother:

Open :
A list of documents she can open (restricted to one folder)
OK and cancel buttons

Save
A list of existing documents (restriced too)
OK and cancel buttons

(She definitely needs something simple)

I will then simplify the toolbars for her.
Unfortunately I'm only a beginner in writing macros. Does someone know a similar project that could get me inspired ?
How would you start programming it? Sould I modify the existing dialogs? Should I write my own ones?

Thank you

Martin

DannyB · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:55 am Post subject:

I don't believe that you can modify the existing dialogs. Think about it. OOo runs on various platforms, each of which have their own open / save dialog boxes. Mac OS X. Windows. Various Linux.

It seems that the best approach would be to build your own dialog boxes. Customize the menus so that Open and Save call Basic macros which display your dialog boxes.
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Martmel · General User Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 14

Thanks DannyB !
Ok, I've started writing my own open and save macros

I still have a problem trying to open all documents in the same window :

SearchFlags = com.sun.star.frame.FrameSearchFlag.CREATE + _
com.sun.star.frame.FrameSearchFlag.ALL
Doc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(Url, "framename", SearchFlags, Dummy())

This works well when I'm opening the second document because the framename is allready set to "framename" but I would like to avoid grandma having to deal with multiple windows.

Does someone knows how to get the framename of the current window?

Thanks !
Martin

Martmel · General User Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 14

Also, when I try to save the document I know I have to use this command :

Doc.storeAsURL("file://" + PATH + FileName.Text, Dummy())

but I have no idea of how to initialize the variable Doc ?
How should i initialize it?

Thanks !

DannyB · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:18 am Post subject:

Here are some loader tricks, loading a new document into the same frame. It is not necessary to mess with frame names.

Load new document into existing window frame
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6076
Two Frames in a single window
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=36764#36764

The variable "Doc" is the document model of the document.

Document model, controller and frame
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5057

When you first open a document....

Open and Create documents, various prog. languages
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5252

MakePropertyValue function
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5108
In Visual Basic...
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22029#22029
In Python...
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26198#26198

you get back the document model from loadComponentFromURL.

In OOo basic, you can use the variable ThisComponent to obtain the document model of the doc which contains the currently running macro.

You can use StarDesktop.getCurrentComponent() to get the document model of the front most document. But then you need to do some additional checks on it to make sure it is a document rather than some other type of component, such as the Help window, or Basic IDE, or third party lightweight component.

Some Introspection techniques (various languages)
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7068
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Martmel · General User Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 14

Thanks again DannyB !

I managed to program my own open and save dialog boxes.

I would like now to get rid of the menu bar (to keep only the toolbars I created). Do you know if such a thing is possible ? Should I try to find how to hide it ? Is there a config file that can be rewritten in order to make it disappear? Or should I write a macro that will hide it at startup?

I would also remove the contextual menu that appears with the right click. How can such a thing be done?

I really ur apreciate your help.
Thanks

Martin

DannyB · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:36 am Post subject:

Tools --> Configure
This lets you change the menu bars.

After you have done this, you may notice some new XML config files in your "user" folder.

On Windows, the "user" folder may be directly under your OOo installation folder, if you did a single user install.
On Windows, the "user" folder may be somewhere in your "home directory" if you did a network install.
On Linux, the "user" folder is in a place such as....
/home/danny/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/user

In your "user" folder see this....
OOo/user/config/soffice.cfg

In this folder, you may see some new files such as...
drawmenubar.xml
drawtoolbar.xml
calcmenubar.xml
etc...

These xml files contain the configuration that you changed from the
Tools --> Configure
dialog box.

In OOo 2.0, the configuration will be officially stored in the Configuration Manager data. Therefore, in 2.0, it will be possible to reconfigure the menus and toolbars programmatically.
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DannyB · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:37 am Post subject: