PythonDialogBox
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Originally created by Paolo Mantovani for the Code Snippet Project. The snippet explains how to generate a MsgBox within the Python-Uno environment.
from com.sun.star.awt import Rectangle from com.sun.star.awt import WindowDescriptor from com.sun.star.awt.WindowClass import MODALTOP from com.sun.star.awt.VclWindowPeerAttribute import OK, OK_CANCEL, YES_NO, YES_NO_CANCEL, RETRY_CANCEL, DEF_OK, DEF_CANCEL, DEF_RETRY, DEF_YES, DEF_NO def TestMessageBox(): doc = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDocument() parentwin = doc.CurrentController.Frame.ContainerWindow s = "This is a test" t = "Test" res = MessageBox(parentwin, s, t, "querybox", YES_NO_CANCEL + DEF_NO) s = res MessageBox(parentwin, s, t, "infobox") # Show a message box with the UNO based toolkit def MessageBox(ParentWin, MsgText, MsgTitle, MsgType="messbox", MsgButtons=OK): MsgType = MsgType.lower() #available msg types MsgTypes = ("messbox", "infobox", "errorbox", "warningbox", "querybox") if not ( MsgType in MsgTypes ): MsgType = "messbox" #describe window properties. aDescriptor = WindowDescriptor() aDescriptor.Type = MODALTOP aDescriptor.WindowServiceName = MsgType aDescriptor.ParentIndex = -1 aDescriptor.Parent = ParentWin #aDescriptor.Bounds = Rectangle() aDescriptor.WindowAttributes = MsgButtons tk = ParentWin.getToolkit() msgbox = tk.createWindow(aDescriptor) msgbox.setMessageText(MsgText) if MsgTitle : msgbox.setCaptionText(MsgTitle) return msgbox.execute() g_exportedScripts = TestMessageBox,
Analysis
Analyzing the script we can consider the following:
- Studying the series of UNO components for the UNO widgets
- Difference between TextMessageBox() and MessageBox()
- Dialog object properties
UNO component composition
First thing we notice is the amount of widgets imported from the awt module. The WindowDescriptor struct is well documented on the API documentation.
Anatomy of the snippet
The snippet have two different classes the one in charge of creating the message box called MessageBox() which design the specs of the dialog and the TestMessageBox() which pass the arguments to the dialog. The MessageBox() set the following properties:
- Type - specifies the type of window.
- WindowServiceName - specifies the name of the component service.
- ParentIndex - specifies the index of the parent window, if available.
- Bounds - specifies the position and size of the window.
- WindowAttributes - specifies the window attributes.
The following properties can be find on the WindowDescriptor struct on the API documentation.