On 03.10.2013 11:37, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
Hello,
From: Andre Fischer [mailto:awf....@gmail.com]
It took a long time but here is my example, a simple search
for writer.
That's OK. I just came back from my vacation and am now
catching up on
emails.
Can you please help me now?
I will try. Can you tell me, what the extension does and how
you want
it to work and look?
The extension function is very simple, there is a dialog with two text fields to
enter a search string and a replacement text, and two buttons to start searching
or replacing. The extension is for writer.
So not much function but it is indeed primarily an example of integration in the
sidebar
This dialogue should now be implemented, he works as a sidebar, so:
2 text fields for entering
4 Label Fields
2 buttons to launch two Basic Macros
I was somewhat but not entirely successful in turning your BASIC script
into a sidebar panel.
I have created an Eclipse project of the sidebar panel [1]. Run the
'oxt' target of the Ant build file to create the file
SidebarBasicPanelDemo.oxt in the dist/ directory. Install this
extension in a 4.* OpenOffice and restart. Now you should see in the
sidebar tab bar a new entry with a gear icon. Click on it to swtich to
the demo panel.
What works is that the dialog is displayed as expected. Callbacks into
the BASIC script work also.
What does not work is that the BASIC script can not access the dialog
for eg retrieval of the search strings. The reason for that is that the
dialog is not created from the script in the 'Start_dialog' function but
on the Java side of the implementation. I tried to call from Java into
BASIC with the dialog object. The call works, but I did not get the
public BASIC variable 'ts_dialog' to work. When you click on the 'Suche
Nächsten' button then the ts_dialog value is empty again.
But maybe this is a good thing, because every document has its own side
bar and its own BASIC dialog. Using a single global variable to hold
the dialog would not work. As I do not know OpenOffice BASIC well
enough to know if and how object orientation works, I did not try to fix
this.
I also do not know how to change the event callbacks to pass parameters
to the BASIC script. Without parameters, your BASIC script does not
know from which instance of the dialog it has been called and thus could
not retrieve the search string, even if it could access the dialogs.
Using the BASIC dialog but do the implementation in Java would be much
easier and more reliable.
Best regards,
Andre
[1] http://people.apache.org/~af/SidebarBasicDemo.zip
Greetings,
Jörg
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