PythonDialogBox

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