Adapted Save As dialog: FilePicker or DispatchHelper?

lesguilw

Hi folks,

Once again I put my fate in the hands of the almighty OOoForum community Wink

. I did quite a lot of homework on this case so please don't let me down!

I created a macro that launches a Save As dialog with a few modifications. For the moment I achieved, using a FilePicker, to set the directory I want, a default name and filters. What I want to do now is to access the controls of the FilePocker dialog to modificate them, for example setting the CHECKBOX_AUTOEXTENSION ticked as default.

In this thread: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=8098&highlight=filepicker Gonzalo gives a way of accessing the controls but I tried it without success. After searching the API it seems that the "setControlProperty" method no longer exists in the XFilePicker interface or object ( http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/ui/dialogs/FilePicker.html ). I neither could find the controlIds he uses. So instead I tried using the "setValue" method of the XFilePickerControlAccess ( http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/ui/dialogs/XFilePickerControlAccess.html ) that exists but the second argument "ControlAction" ( http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/ui/dialogs/XFilePickerControlAccess.html#setValue ) is rather strange and I don't know to which value set it, all I tried failed.

I continued my search on the forum and found that post (among many many others): http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=8020&highlight=filepicker where DannyB suggests to use the DispatchHelper instead of the FilePicker and it's true that it is better since it seems to show the Save As dialog box of the File Menu, with the checkbox ticked and all the filters. But here I can't anymore set the file name to the value I wish...

Here is the code I use for the moment: with the FilePicker:

SergeM · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:02 am Post subject:

Don't know if it helps, I have worked around saveas dialog but in C++ :
managing UNO windows with C++http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=13710
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lesguilw · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:35 am Post subject:

Thanks for the link and your cool thread but unfortunately your Save As example stops where my problems begin...

ms777 · Super User Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 1355

the second example in http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=22845 should give you some hint how to specify a file name or mark the checkbox. Let me know if you need some help ...

lesguilw · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:08 am Post subject:

Thanks for the thread ms777, this code was way out of my league and I had a hard time understanding it. But I learned a lot searching what it was doing, thanks!

I have a few problem though:

1 - The listener you use ("com.sun.star.awt.XTopWindowListener") seems not to work with the SaveAs dialog... when it opens, the code in the TopWFormula_windowOpened doesn't execute. So I looked for another one but can't find any list of all the listeners, I did find a FilePickerListener but the method "open" is not included in it. Do you know which listener I could use?

2 - How can I retrieve the names of the controls I am looking for? The rols are obvious (I just have to open the SaveAs window and see what they are) but the names... do I have to guess the name or there is a way to retrieve them?

3 - This is a more general problem: I tried to test things using the FilePickerListener but I couldn't initialize it. I should use the FilePickerNotifier interface that have the add and remove method for the listener. My problem is that the API ( http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/ui/dialogs/XFilePickerNotifier.html ) doesn't specify any object that have this interface. How can I know which object to create to be able to use the interface?

Thanks,
Will

SergeM · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:

I am not sure you can retrieve the names of the controls. If you can its through an interface and I don't see such interface.
Perhaps it is easier to recreate your own file picker dialog.
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ms777 · Super User Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 1355

Hi,

it seems not to be necessary to use the TopWindowListener. Try the below code. Note that on my System (Win98SE) the behavior varies, depending on your config settings (Tools/Options/General/OpenSave/Use OO Dialogs checked or not). With system dialogs, the listener leads to a complete OO block, even if all msgbox are commented out. With OO dialogs, everything works fine.
So start with the listener add / remove commented out, and then see what happens ...

Good luck,

ms777

lesguilw · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:10 am Post subject:

Thanks ms777 this works perfectly!

Let's make a little summary of all this and provide a clean code:

If you want to make an adapted / modified / changed SaveAs dialog you can use the following code:

lesguilw · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:07 am Post subject:

Now I am trying to push it a bit forward but I am still having problems...

The thing is that using the FilePicker that way doesn't exactly match the behaviour of the regular SaveAs dialog, because when you save, the newly saved document doesn't replace the old one in the OOo window. I still have the old document open.

To fix that I tried to add this line at the end of the above script:

SergeM · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:

I don't see why there is a problem to close the old document
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lesguilw · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:44 am Post subject:

Ok, I think I am not too far from a solution but it still doesn't work perfectly, I have one more problem.

Now I use this code :

lesguilw · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:14 am Post subject:

I think I know why the macros doen't work, it is because the document is opened with macros disabled without any warning. I mean OOo doesn't ask me if I want them enabled or not... I am working on it thanks to Andrew Pytoniak's document page 40, hopefully I'll provide a working code soon Wink

lesguilw · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:19 am Post subject:

And here it is! Thanks Andrew for your great document!

phazzy · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:37 am Post subject:

Hello,

Thanks for the snippets they were really useful to me.
About the loading of the new document (the one that was just saved) into the same window, I think one can use storeAsURL as opposed to storeToURL.

From OOO API: