On Sunday, January 30, 2011 11:07 Andreas Schneider wrote: >On Sunday, January 30, 2011 09:46 Bo Berglund wrote: >> The link above goes in the end to a download of *compiled* java code >> so it is not that good for me. An FPC implementation would be really >> useful though. > > >The source code of jodconverter is available, as you can see on that >very page I linked (on the bottom ;-)). Automating OOo with FPC is not >completely impossible, but far from trivial. Even if you have the >necessary code, you still have to setup the ABI between OOos C++ >interface and FPC. That's essentially what the current Pascal UNO >Bridge does. But as I said: far from trivial. >That's one of the reasons I did all my OpenOffice.org extensions in >Java ;-) > >-- >Best Regards, >Andreas
Right, after I wrote my message I realized I had a WinXP virtual machine with OpenOffice 3.2 installed, so I downloaded the converter and tested it using the manual command line commands. It worked OK to convert a 2-page test document. :-) I have a question in this context, tha you might answer: In the description you are directed to starting OpenOffice.org in headless mode as a socket server. Then the Java application can connect to it and make the conversion. But what is NOT specified is how you get rid of the headless running OpenOffice application... I don't want it running after I am done with my conversion. Is there a way except through TaskManager (provided it only loads the two files exe and bin)??? A will heed your advice concerning the coding and not dive in due to the complexity. Will instead try to utilize the java function via a TProcess object such that I can manage the files that are to be converted. *That* shouldn't be too difficult to do in Lazarus/FPC... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
