Handling Presentation Document Files

OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide

Drawing Documents and Presentation Documents

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• Example: Creating a Simple Organizational Chart

• Handling Drawing Document Files

• Saving Drawing Documents

• Storing
• Exporting
• Filter Options

• Printing Drawing Documents

• Working with Drawing Documents

• Shapes

• Shape Types
• Bezier Shapes
• Shape Operations

• Moving and Scaling
• Rotating and Shearing
• Transforming
• Ordering
• Grouping, Combining and Binding
• General Drawing Properties
• Glue Points and Connectors
• Layer Handling

• Inserting Files
• Navigating

• Handling Presentation Document Files

• Printing Presentation Documents

• Working with Presentation Documents

• Presentation Settings

• Custom Slide Show
• Presentation Effects
• Slide Transition
• Animations and Interactions

• Overall Document Features

• Settings
• Page Formatting

• Drawing and Presentation Document Controller

• Setting the Current Page
• Zooming
• Other Drawing Specific View Settings

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Creating and Loading Presentation Documents

The URL that must be used with loadComponentFromURL() for new presentation documents is "private:factory/simpress".

To avoid the initial dialog in new presentation documents, set the property Silent defined in com.sun.star.document.MediaDescriptor to true. This property has to be used with the sequence of PropertyValue structs that is passed to loadComponentFromURL().

The snippet below loads a new presentation document in silent mode:

  // the method getRemoteServiceManager is described in the chapter First Steps
  mxRemoteServiceManager = this.getRemoteServiceManager();
  
  // retrieve the Desktop object, we need its XComponentLoader
  Object desktop = mxRemoteServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
      "com.sun.star.frame.Desktop", mxRemoteContext);
  
  // query the XComponentLoader interface from the Desktop service
  XComponentLoader xComponentLoader = (XComponentLoader)UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
      XComponentLoader.class, desktop);
  
  // define load properties according to com.sun.star.document.MediaDescriptor
  // the boolean property Silent tells the office to suppress the impress startup wizard
  PropertyValue[] loadProps = new PropertyValue[1];
  loadProps[0] = new PropertyValue();
  loadProps[0].Name = "Silent";
  loadProps[0].Value = new Boolean(true); 
  
  // load
  com.sun.star.uno.XComponent xComponentLoader.loadComponentFromURL(
      "private:factory/simpress", "_blank", 0, loadProps);

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