Programming With UNO

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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UNO (pronounced ['ju:nou]) stands for Universal Network Objects and is the base component technology for OpenOffice.org. You can utilize and write components that interact across languages, component technologies, computer platforms, and networks. Currently, UNO is available on Linux, Solaris, Windows, Power PC, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Other ports are still being developed at OpenOffice.org. The supported programming languages are Java, C++ and OpenOffice.org Basic. As well, UNO is available through the component technology Microsoft COM for many other languages. On OpenOffice.org there is also a language binding for Python available. With OpenOffice.org 2.0, UNO is also programmable with .NET languages using the new Common Language Infrastructure binding. In addition, the new scripting framework offers the use of the API through several scripting languages, such as Javascript, Beanshell or Jython. See Scripting Framework for more details. UNO is used to access OpenOffice.org, using its Application Programming Interface (API). The OpenOffice.org API is the comprehensive specification that describes the programmable features of OpenOffice.org.

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