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veru
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 Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: Updating Fields |
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Hi,
in a document template I've to convert from VBA to StarBasic there is this part:
| Code: | For Each Part In oDoc.StoryRanges
Part.Fields.Update
While Not (Part.NextStoryRange Is Nothing)
Set Part = Part.NextStoryRange
Part.Fields.Update
Wend
Next |
This goes trough the whole document and updates all Fields. How would I do the same in OOo? I know that the counterpart to a Word story is a OOo section, the fields are handled different in OOo. I couldn't find them anywhere in the object model.
UPDATE
I used the macro recorder, it gave me the following:
| Code: | dim document as object
dim dispatcher as object
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem get access to the document
document = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:UpdateFields", "", 0, Array()) |
This works, but isn't there somethig more elegant, without using the dispatch framework? |
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ms777
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:35 am Post subject: Re: Updating Fields |
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| veru wrote: |
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:UpdateFields", "", 0, Array())[/code]
This works, but isn't there somethig more elegant, without using the dispatch framework? |
The docs say that 'All fields support the interfaces com.sun.star.text.XTextField, com.sun.star.util.XUpdatable, com.sun.star.text.XDependentTextField and the service com.sun.star.text.TextContent', so an update on each single field should be possible. I do not know if you can do an aggregate update by OO API |
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veru
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| But there is still the problem how to get access to the fields. If I know the supported Interfaces I know which methods I can call. But how to obtain a colletction of all fields? |
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ms777
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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the document's getTextFieldMasters() function . You should more often use XRay  |
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veru
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Actually I used XRay, but I must have overseen this  . Btw, this was really a good tip! |
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