FormComponent Service

OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide

Forms

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• Models and Views

• The Model-View Paradigm
• Models and Views for Form Controls
• Model-View Interaction
• Form Layer Views

• Form Elements in the Document Model

• A Hierarchy of Models

• FormComponent Service
• FormComponents Service
• Logical Forms
• Forms Container
• Form Control Models

• Control Models and Shapes

• Form Components

• Control Models
• Forms
• HTML Forms

• Data Awareness

• Forms

• Forms as Row Sets
• Loadable Forms
• Sub Forms
• Filtering and Sorting
• Parameters

• Data Aware Controls

• Control Models as Bound Components
• Committing Controls

• External Value Suppliers

• Value Bindings

• Form Controls accepting Value Bindings

• External List Sources

• Validation

• Validation in OpenOffice.org
• Validation and Bindings

• Scripting and Events
• Common Tasks

• Initializing Bound Controls
• Automatic Key Generation
• Data Validation
• Programmatic Assignment of Scripts to Events

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The basis for all form related models is the com.sun.star.form.FormComponent service. Its basic characteristics are:

• it exports the com.sun.star.container.XChild interface
• it has a property Name
• it exports the com.sun.star.lang.XComponent interface

Form components have a parent and a name, and support lifetime control that the common denominator for form elements and logical forms, as well as for control models.

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