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Malvern
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Re: COMLIB interfacinf with LibreOffice
« Reply #9 on: Sep 3^rd, 2014, 3:22pm »

OK, All I was saying was it did not appear to be an easy conversion. And I for one would not have a clue what to do with this:
Code:

Dim args()
Set objDocument= objDesktop.loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/swriter",_
                 "_blank", 0, args)

Or even why from URL?
Do those that are wiser have any suggestions?

V

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rtr2
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Re: COMLIB interfacinf with LibreOffice
« Reply #10 on: Sep 3^rd, 2014, 4:49pm »

on Sep 3^rd, 2014, 3:22pm, Malvern wrote:

I for one would not have a clue what to do with this

When you say you "would not have a clue" presumably you appreciate that loadComponentFromURL is a method of the object objDesktop (which is an instantiation of the class com.sun.star.frame.Desktop). As with all objects, one option is to call the method via the vTable, as described in this Wiki article:

http://bb4w.wikispaces.com/Calling+object+methods+using+structures

Alternatively, if it's an object which implements the iDispatch interface you can - more easily - call the method using COMLIB.BBC:

http://bb4w.wikispaces.com/Component+Object+Model+programming

Once upon a time a COM/ActiveX object could be guaranteed to have an iDispatch interface, but no longer apparently:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159621/en-us

I'm not knowledgeable enough about VBScript to say whether the code at the OpenOffice page implies the presence of an iDispatch interface or not.

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Or even why from URL?

That's probably a question it's better not to ask! Just do what it says. wink

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Malcolm
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Re: COMLIB interfacinf with LibreOffice
« Reply #11 on: Sep 4^th, 2014, 04:40am »

on Sep 3^rd, 2014, 09:37am, Edja wrote:

Wow. Lots of info and links to docs that I will need to chew through.

I think you will find most of what you need is here:
https://www.openoffice.org/api/basic/man/tutorial/tutorial.pdf
Section 4.4 has some examples.

Malcolm

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