howto: access open office without starting?

murcielago · General User Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 12

hi guys,

i use the api of open office but i don't want to have to start open office for that. is it possible to access openoffice functionality through a dll? or is it possible to - if i have to - start openoffice "invisible"? or as a service?

regards,
lukas

DannyB · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:03 am Post subject:

I don't know of any way to directly use the dll's of OOo. It might be possible, who knows. Of course, the dll's are subject to change without notice. The API will remain stable forever and ever and ever, amen.

See the links in another reply I just wrote today...
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=56377#56377
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SergeM · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:34 pm Post subject:

There is no problem to use cppuhelper.dll : there is an example in the SDK (and comes with SDK). But what you can do with this dll is roughly nothing interesting. The most interesting things are done with OOo working ...
I have not tried but i think a great part of chapter 3 in my document can work without OOo running.
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mipsv · Newbie Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Boston

I think the OP would want to use

soffice -headless