Common Workflow to add Controls

OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide

Graphical User Interfaces

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• Exception Handling
• Dialogs and Controls
• Dialog Creation

• Instantiation of a Dialog
• Setting Dialog Properties
• Adding Controls to a Dialog
• Displaying Dialogs

• Dialog Handling

• Events
• Dialog Controls

• Common Properties
• Font-specific Properties
• Other Common Properties
• Property Propagation Between Model and Control
• Common Workflow to add Controls
• The Example Listings
• Label Field
• Command Button
• Image Control
• Check Box
• Radio Button
• Scroll Bar
• List Box
• Combo Box
• Progress Bar
• Horizontal/Vertical Line Control
• Group Box
• Text Field
• Text Field Extensions
• Formatted Field
• Numeric Field
• Currency Field
• Date Field
• Time Field
• Pattern Field
• Roadmap Control
• File Control
• File Picker
• Message Box

• The Toolkit Service
• Creating Menus

• Summarizing Example to Create a UNO Dialog

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For any existing dialog controls there is a common workflow to follow to insert a control into a dialog:

1. Instantiate the control model at the MultiServiceFactory of the dialog.
2. Set the Properties at the control model (for performance reasons, use the interface com.sun.star.beans.XMultiPropertySet).
3. Insert the control model at the control model container of the dialog model. In our coding examples we refer to this container by the public object variable m_xDlgModelNameContainer created in the code example of Instantiation of a Dialog
4. Query the control from the dialog control container by referencing the name (that you have previously assigned to the control model). Note: According to the MVC paradigm there is no way to retrieve the control from the model.

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