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5 6 7 8 9 Modules, Services and Interfaces...........................................................................................................................................53 Tools for Working with UNO...............................................................................................................................................53 Overview of Central Interfaces..............................................................................................................................................54 Working with Documents...........................................................................59 The StarDesktop......................................................................................................................................................................59 Styles and Templates...............................................................................................................................................................66 Text Documents........................................................................................69 The Structure of Text Documents........................................................................................................................................69 Editing Text Documents........................................................................................................................................................75 More Than Just Text...............................................................................................................................................................81 Spreadsheet Documents............................................................................91 The Structure of Spreadsheets...............................................................................................................................................91 Editing Spreadsheet Documents.........................................................................................................................................107 Drawings and Presentations....................................................................111 The Structure of Drawings...................................................................................................................................................111 Editing Drawing Objects......................................................................................................................................................125 Presentations..........................................................................................................................................................................128 Charts (Diagrams) ...................................................................................131 Using Charts in Spreadsheets...............................................................................................................................................131 The Structure of Charts........................................................................................................................................................132 Chart Types............................................................................................................................................................................140 10 Databases..............................................................................................143 SQL: a Query Language........................................................................................................................................................143 Types of Database Access....................................................................................................................................................143 Data Sources..........................................................................................................................................................................144 Database Access....................................................................................................................................................................146 11 Dialogs...................................................................................................151 Working With Dialogs..........................................................................................................................................................151 Properties...............................................................................................................................................................................153 Events.....................................................................................................................................................................................156 Dialog Control Elements......................................................................................................................................................161 12 Forms....................................................................................................167 Working With Forms............................................................................................................................................................167 Control Element Forms.......................................................................................................................................................170 Database Forms.....................................................................................................................................................................176
Preface This guide provides an introduction to programming with OpenOffice.org Basic. To get the most out of this book, you should be familiar with other programming languages. Extensive examples are provided to help you quickly develop your own OpenOffice.org Basic programs. Note – Throughout this document, the OpenOffice.org installation directory is represented in syntax as install-dir. 5
Page 1 and 2: OpenOffice.org 3.2 BASIC Guide
Page 3: 3 1 2 3 4 Contents Copyright.......
Page 7 and 8: About OpenOffice.org Basic and allo
Page 9 and 10: Overview of a Basic Program In addi
Page 11 and 12: Working With Variables example, in
Page 13 and 14: Numbers with long integer variables
Page 15 and 16: Numbers return incorrect values. Th
Page 17 and 18: Arrays Dim MyInteger(3) creates 4 i
Page 19 and 20: Scope and Life Span of Variables Sc
Page 21 and 22: Constants Const A = 10 You can also
Page 23 and 24: Branching B = 0 End If In this exam
Page 25 and 26: Loops use an explicit counter like
Page 27 and 28: Procedures and Functions ' ... here
Page 29 and 30: Procedures and Functions The exampl
Page 31 and 32: Error Handling The following code i
Page 33 and 34: Other Instructions End Sub & "Text:
Page 35 and 36: Conversion Functions calculates the
Page 37 and 38: Conversion Functions IsBoolean = Fa
Page 39 and 40: Strings Formatting Strings The Form
Page 41 and 42: Date and Time The Weekday function
Page 43 and 44: Files and Directories Note - VBA :
Page 45 and 46: Files and Directories The FreeFile
Page 47 and 48: Message and Input Boxes Display of
Page 49 and 50: Other Functions specifies the same
Page 51 and 52: Universal Network Objects (UNO) com
Page 53 and 54: Tools for Working with UNO The foll
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Overview of Central Interfaces basi
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5 C H A P T E R 5 5 Working with
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XML File Format The StarDesktop Ope
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The StarDesktop The FileProperties
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The options of the print method The
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Doc = ThisComponent StyleFamilies =
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6 C H A P T E R 6 6 Text Documen
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described in Search and Replace. Th
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Paragraph Properties The Structure
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If TextElement.supportsService("com
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isEndOfSentence () returns True if
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Doc.Text.insertControlCharacter(Cur
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Dim Replace As Object Dim BritishWo
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More Than Just Text Note - Text tab
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Doc.Text.insertTextContent(Cursor,
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frame objects are set to the starti
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The following example shows how the
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7 C H A P T E R 7 7 Spreadsheet
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The same interface provides methods
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Cell = Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, 0
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StartColumn (long) first column in
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You can apply all of the named prop
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NumberFormatId = NumberFormats.addN
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ShadowFormat (struct) The Structure
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FooterBottomBorderDistance (long) d
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Definition of Elements to be Printe
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VARP variance based on the total po
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8 C H A P T E R 8 8 Drawings and
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Doc = ThisComponent Page = Doc.Draw
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RectangleShape.Position = Point Rec
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The lines are dark gray (Color) and
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service. Dim Doc As Object Dim Page
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An Overview of Various Drawing Obje
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Page.add(LineShape) Polypolygon Sha
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AdjustBlue (Short) blue value as a
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Point.x = 1000 Point.y = 1000 Size.
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Pause (long) the amount of time tha
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Using Charts in Spreadsheets The pr
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The Structure of Charts com.sun.sta
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The Structure of Charts Min (Double
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The Structure of Charts HasZAxisGri
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The Structure of Charts The followi
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10 C H A P T E R 1 0 10 Database
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User (String) user name Password (S
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Dim Statement As Object Dim ResultS
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FORWARD_ONLY ResultSet only permits
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11 C H A P T E R 1 1 11 Dialogs
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Closing With the Close Button in th
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Multi-Page Dialogs Properties A dia
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Control element-specific events: Ev
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Buttons (short) X (long) Y (long) b
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Temporary (Boolean) the focus is te
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Model.Label (String) label that is
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Model.HScroll (Boolean) the text ha
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12 C H A P T E R 1 2 12 Forms In
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Accessing the View of Control Eleme
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Tag (String) Control Element Forms
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Enabled (Boolean) the control eleme
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LineCount (Short) number of lines o
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