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Events 216
The figure above shows the
OpenOffice.org Basic development
environment with a dialog window
that contains two list boxes. You can
move the data from one list to the
other using the buttons between the
two list boxes.
If you want to display the layout on
screen, then you should create the
associated OpenOffice.org Basic
procedures so that they can be called
up by the event handlers. Even
though you can use these procedures
in any module, it is best to limit their
use to two modules. To make your
code easier to read, you should
assign meaningful names to these
procedures. Jumping directly to a
general program procedure from a
macro can result in unclear code.
The OpenOffice.org Basic development environment
Instead, to simplify code maintenance and troubleshooting, you should create another
procedure to serve as an entry point for event handling - even if it only executes a single
call to the target procedure.
The code in the following example moves an entry from the left to the right list box of a
dialog.
Sub cmdSelect_Initiated
Dim objList As Object
lstEntries = Dlg.getControl("lstEntries")
lstSelection = Dlg.getControl("lstSelection")
If lstEntries.SelectedItem > 0 Then
lstSelection.AddItem(lstEntries.SelectedItem, 0)
lstEntries.removeItems(lstEntries.SelectItemPos, 1)
Else
Beep
End If
End Sub
If this procedure was created in OpenOffice.org Basic, you can assign it to an event
required using the property window of the dialog editor.