Okay, I reported an enhancement request; let's if it could be done https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93516
2015-08-17 7:46 GMT+03:00 Hi-Angel <hiangel...@gmail.com>: > Well, I think at some level that all comes to a simple objects. > > Anyway, how do you compare properties? E.g. I was recently needed to > change with UNO the first page style of Writer document. In the end it > turned out to be the property «PageDescName» (a string) of the first > paragraph, and that's just impossible to infer deductively (why > paragraph? I could imagine it would be e.g. TextCursor, but a > paragraph could easily span for multiple pages). > > So, could you compare properties for a Writer document before and > after the first page style was manually changed, and find that the > «PageDescName» just did changed? > > 2015-08-17 4:28 GMT+03:00 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org>: >> On 08/16/2015 03:53 PM, Hi-Angel wrote: >>> >>> Often it is really hard to figure out for how to do something in UNO >>> unless someone already did it, and left a description on the Internet. >>> Even in the presence of MRI. >>> >>> So I'm wondering: perhaps is there a way to save UNO state? So that >>> one could just save the state, change something they're interested in, >>> next again save the state. And the only thing that's left to do, is >>> just to peek at the difference between two files with a diff utility >>> to figure out the properties that were just changed. >> >> Is your interest is in a specific object. For example, what properties >> changed on the first table. >> >> I can easily compare properties for an object, but, that only deals with >> simple types such as strings and numbers. So, I can inspect an object and >> display the values of all the simple types with the attribute names and >> values. I can then save this in a text file, make a change to the object, >> then check the values again. >> >> First problem is that I am only looking at simple types. Sure, I could >> change my inspection code to attempt to expand attributes that are other UNO >> services, but, I would need to watch for referential loops (like if a table >> refers to the owning document that would then refer to that table). >> >> >> -- >> Andrew Pitonyak >> My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt >> Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
