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Properties and Methods 67
Real Properties and Imitated Properties
Most of the properties of an object in OpenOffice.org Basic are defined as such in the UNO
description of the service. In addition to these "real" properties, there are also properties in
OpenOffice.org Basic which consist of two methods at the UNO level. One of these is used
to query the value of the property and the other is issued to set it (get and set methods).
The property has been virtually imitated from two methods. Character objects in UNO, for
example, provide the getPosition and setPosition methods through which the associated key
point can be called up and changed. The OpenOffice.org Basic programmer can access the
values through the Position property. Regardless of this, the original methods are also
available (in our example, getPosition and setPosition).
Methods
Methods can be understood as functions that relate directly to an object and through which
this object is called. The preceding Document object could, for example, provide a Save
method, which can be called as follows:
Document.Save()
Methods, just like functions, may contain parameters and return values. The syntax of such
method calls is oriented towards classic functions. The following call also specifies the True
parameter for the document object when requesting the Save method.
Ok = Document.Save(True)
Once the method has been completed, Save saves a return value in the Ok variable.
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Modules, Services and Interfaces
OpenOffice.org provides hundreds of services. To provide an overview of these services,
they have been combined into modules. The modules are of no other functional importance
for OpenOffice.org Basic programmers. When specifying a service name, it is only the
module name which is of any importance because this must be also listed in the name. The
complete name of a service consists of the com.sun.star expression, which specifies that it
is a OpenOffice.org service, followed by the module name, such as frame, and finally the
actual service name, such as Desktop. The complete name in the named example would be:
com.sun.star.frame.Desktop