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Maybe I should write something on PyUNO component development?
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OpenOffice’s Dispatch API seems like a great big hack and it is something one tries to avoid using when working with the API but
sometimes the API just won’t do what one would like it do i.e. Copying and Pasting content.
The Dispatch API allows developers to execute slots where there is some function in the office but it is not exposed by the API.
In the code below, the slot “.uno:Copy” is being executed, which is the same functionality in the UI as copy (CTRL-C).
executeSlot( ctx, controller, ".uno:Copy" )
def executeSlot( ctx, controller, islot ):
dispatchHelper = ctx.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext( \
"com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper", ctx )
frame = controller.getFrame()dispatchHelper.executeDispatch( frame, islot, "", 0, () )
A nicer way to do copy/paste if the API was capable of it, would be:
textEnum = doc1.Text.createEnumeration()
textCursor = doc2.Text.createTextCursor()
while textEnum.hasMoreElements():
para = textEnum.nextElement()
textCursor.insertRange( textCursor, para, absorb )
textCursor.gotoEnd( False )
In the first example, if one wanted to copy and paste content between documents, they are reliant on the operating system’s clipboard
In the second example, the code is only reliant on OpenOffice but the there is no insertRange() function on textCursors.
Which is a nice solution do you think? 
There is an XPCOM to UNO bridge in OpenOffice CVS.
The full OpenOffice API is available through the bridge to any JavaScript applications.
Have a look at the README if you are interested and follow the “xpcom_uno module” thread on the UDK dev mailing list
There could be a number of interesting applications that would use this bridge.
Thanks to Daniel Boelzle and the udk team for this.
This is nice bit of code to create user defined attributes as part of properties of services in OpenOffice.org
userAttrs = cell.getPropertyValue( "UserDefinedAttributes" )
myAttr = uno.createUnoStruct( "com.sun.star.xml.AttributeData" )
myAttr.Type = "CDATA"
myAttr.Value = "MyURL"
userAttrs.insertByName( "url", myAttr )
Thanks to DannyB on OOoForums.org for this.
If that’s not a great big vindication for OpenOffice.org, I don’t know what it is, 
For all the new features due in OpenOffice.org check out the new features page on the OpenOffice.org marketing website
PyUNO came up a few times during OOoCon.
A few people expressed a concern about the maturity of PyUNO, well I want to cast away any shadows of doubt, PyUNO is definitely mature, so mature we use it in a production enviroment, we have approximately 70000 lines of python code that uses PyUNO in the Parliamentary Workbench and we are selling this stuff to governments. So YES PyUNO is mature enough to use in a production environment
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=32901
Caolan to test it on linux
I was going through this pain for the last while, but I have figured this out:
Character |
Firefox |
OpenOffice.org |
ASCII |
| Á | %C1 | %C3%81 | 0193 |
| á | %E1 | %C3%A1 | 0225 |
| É | %C9 | %C3%89 | 0201 |
| é | %E9 | %C3%A9 | 0233 |
| Í | %CD | %C3%8D | 0205 |
| í | %ED | %C3%AD | 0237 |
| Ó | %D3 | %C3%93 | 0211 |
| ó | %F3 | %C3%B3 | 0243 |
| Ú | %DA | %C3%9A | 0218 |
| ú | %FA | %C3%BA | 0250 |
Thanks to Andrew Pitonyak for this.
To update Cross References call document.getTextFields().refresh() Cool
I am in a world of loadComponentFromURL() hell try to load file:///c:/pwb/workspace/déil/EN/Óire/doc.sxw. Accented characters in the URL seem to be blowing it 
Daniel Carrera and Shawn McDermott have brought a lot of enthusiasm to the OpenOffice.org project with their CO-Operative Project. But there has been a lot of arguments between projects which has been a drain to people working on it 
and I am not sure or bothered to understand the arguments.
Anyway I am going to help with the writing Dev Primer on the CO-Operative Project as it is a Plone site and other people can edit my documents
Dunc got a blog
He should get it added to Planet OpenOffice