Difference between revisions of "Porting notes"

Revision as of 22:44, 22 February 2007

The mapping of the vba constants is different. Take for example the xlGuess constant, in VBA it's fully qualified name is Excel.XlYesNoGuess.xlGuess, in the helperapi it's com.sun.star.helper.constant.XlYesNoGuess.xlGuess and in oovbaapi it's org.openoffice.excel.XlYesNoGuess.xlGuess
All objects in the helperapi extend HelperInterfaceAdaptor, nothing similar (yet) exists in oovbaapi so this can be ignored in the implementation
There are a quite few helper classes in the helperapi project e.g. RangeHelper.java they shouldn't be confused with the actual implementation objects we wish to port.
classes and idl files of the same name can exist in multiple namespaces and this can be confusing. Because the helperapi was written with both the word and excel api(s) in mind there can be implementations that share a common implementation and interface e.g.
- com/sun/star/helper/calc/XShape.idl
- com/sun/star/helper/common/XShape.idl
- com/sun/star/helper/writer/XShape.idl
Collections, these are handled differently see implementing Collections in oovbaapi
Every helperapi idl method defines BasicErrorException which allows and api method to transfer an error code and associated string paramater to basic.

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 ** <tt>com/sun/star/helper/writer/XShape.idl</tt>
 * Collections, these are handled differently see implementing [[Collections in oovbaapi]]
-* Every helperapi idl method defines [http://api.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/api/udkapi/com/sun/star/script/BasicErrorException.idl BasicErrorException] which allows and api method to trasfer an error code and associated string to basic.
+* Every helperapi idl method defines [http://api.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/api/udkapi/com/sun/star/script/BasicErrorException.idl BasicErrorException] which allows and api method to transfer an error code and associated string paramater to basic.