Defining a Module

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• Options Dialog

• Creating the GUI of the Options Page
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• Defining the Usage of Options Pages

• Adding a Leaf to an Existing Node
• Adding Several Leaves
• Grouping of Leaves
• Adding Nodes
• Adding Several Nodes
• Absolute Position of Leaves
• Grouping of Nodes
• Assigning Nodes to Modules
• Defining a Module
• Absolute Position of Nodes

• The Options Dialog of the Extension Manager

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It is possible to define a Module of one's own. How an extension can provide a real module (not the type Module) is not part of this documentation. However, if this module does not exist, there won´t be an options dialog on behalf of this module and the Nodes assigned to it are not displayed. Only the options dialog from the Extension Manager may show the nodes because it does not depend on a particular module.

Here is an example of defining a Module.

 <node oor:name="Modules">
    <node oor:name="org.openoffice.framework.desktop.test.deployment.options.modules1.module1"
oor:op="fuse">
      <node oor:name="org.openoffice.framework.desktop.test.deployment.options.modules1.module2"
oor:op="fuse">
      </node>
    </node>

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