Working with Objects

OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide

First Steps

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• Programming with UNO
• Fields of Application for UNO
• Getting Started

• Installation Sets
• Configuration
• First Contact

• How to get Objects in OpenOffice.org
• Working with Objects

• Objects, Interfaces, and Services
• Using Services
• Example: Working with a Spreadsheet Document
• Common Types
• Struct
• Any
• Sequence
• Element Access

• How do I know Which Type I Have?
• Example: Hello Text, Hello Table, Hello Shape

• Common Mechanisms for Text, Tables and Drawings
• Creating Text, Tables and Drawing Shapes

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Working with Apache OpenOffice API objects involves the following:

• First we will learn the UNO concepts of objects, interfaces, services, attributes, and properties, and we will get acquainted with UNO's method of using them.
• After that, we will work with a Apache OpenOffice document for the first time, and give some hints for the usage of the most common types in Apache OpenOffice API.
• Finally we will introduce the common interfaces that allow you to work with text, tables and drawings across all Apache OpenOffice document types.

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