HowTo Toggle VisibleBars on open Documents

[PBiela]

Hello folks,

a quick way to change the display status of all the bars in a open frame is this:
It toggles the visible status between True and False

[JohnV]

Peter,

Thanks for this great reference link.

[PBiela]

I'm allways very, very, very happy when I find anything usefull in the API documentation!

[Cybb20]

If you found this to be useful, then you probably don't want to miss this feature:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13986

You can then detect if certain toolbars are visible or not and decide upon the certain condition.

Christian
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[Gore]

A way to set (or change) the display status of any bar.

Parameter sBar is the string name: ""MenuBarVisible" , "ObjectBarVisible", "OptionBarVisible", "NavigationBarVisible", "StatusBarVisible", "ToolBarVisible",
"MacrobarVisible", "FunctionBarVisible" or "InputLineVisible"
Parameter bOnOff True set the bar visible, False no visible; if missing it changes the display status.

[Cybb20]

With the new API for upcoming OOo 2.0 stable release, things will get much easier. Also there is much more control over almost every single item of the UI for OOo.
To not say too much, I will show you how easy it is to make all menubars/toolbars of the current component invisible:

[ddorange]

The following macro allows to hide or display a custom toolbar (OOo2.0)

Sub ToSeeorNotToSeeThatIsThequestion
oFrame = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
layout = oFrame.LayoutManager
sUrl="private:resource/toolbar/custom_toolbar_1"
If layout.IsElementVisible(sUrl) Then
layout.hideElement(sUrl)
Else
layout.showElement(sUrl)
Endif
End Sub

[James Miles]

Hi Guys,

I've just downloaded OpenOffice.org 2.0.

I'm been reading these forums and have been trying to use .NET to fire up open office & then hide all the tool bars. I've ported some python code i saw in one of these post to execute dispatch, and hide the tool bars. Its very similar to the code in this post.

The code for starting open office is working, it writes hello word into the instance of writer that appears. The hide toolbar code isn't working. I'm trying to do this by using executeDispatch.

Is there a better way of doing this? Am i way off track?

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[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
//... i have removed the working code.

// Get the document contoller.
object docController = doc.GetType().InvokeMember("getCurrentController", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, doc, noargs);
// Ge the current frame.
object oframe = docController.GetType().InvokeMember("getFrame", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, docController, noargs);

// Get the dispatch helper.
object[] param = new object[1];
param[0] = "com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper";
object dispatcher = (Object)t_OOo.InvokeMember("createInstance", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, objServiceManager, param);

ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:ToolBarVisible");
ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:ObjectBarVisible");
ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:OptionBarVisible");
ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:NavigationBarVisible");
ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:StatusBarVisible");
ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:MenuBarVisible");
ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:MacroBarVisible");
ExecuteDispatch(dispatcher, oframe, ".uno:FunctionBarVisible");
}

private static void ExecuteDispatch(object dispatcher, object oframe, string methodName)
{
object[] noargs = new object[] {};
object[] dispatcherArgs = new object[5];
dispatcherArgs[0] = oframe;
dispatcherArgs[1] = methodName;
dispatcherArgs[2] = "";
dispatcherArgs[3] = 0;
dispatcherArgs[4] = noargs;
dispatcher.GetType().InvokeMember("executeDispatch", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, dispatcher, dispatcherArgs);
}

[LarsB]

Hi James,

i've coded a little test app that show you how to
disable the main menu.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=27864

Cheers
Lars B

PS: Don't know why the Dispatcher wouldn't work, but i have had
smilar problems. So that i try to avoid using the dispatcher functionality.
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[MattStark]

What you need to do to get the object:

unoidl.com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext localContext = uno.util.Bootstrap.bootstrap();
unoidl.com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory multiServiceFactory = (unoidl.com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory)localContext.getServiceManager();
XComponentLoader componentLoader = (XComponentLoader)multiServiceFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop");
XFrame frame = ((unoidl.com.sun.star.text.XTextDocument)xComponent).getCurrentController().getFrame();
XDispatchHelper xDispatchHelper = (XDispatchHelper)multiServiceFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper");

Create property values here … and put em in tableArgs ...

xDispatchHelper.executeDispatch((XDispatchProvider)frame, ".uno:InsertTable", "", 0, tableArgs);