Accessing Dialogs

OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide

Writing UNO Components

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• Required Files
• Using UNOIDL to Specify New Components

• Writing the Specification

• Preprocessing
• Grouping Definitions in Modules
• Simple Types
• Defining an Interface
• Defining a Service
• Defining a Sequence
• Defining a Struct
• Defining an Exception
• Predefining Values
• Using Comments
• Singleton
• Reserved Types
• Published Entities

• Generating Source Code from UNOIDL Definitions

• Component Architecture
• Core Interfaces to Implement

• XInterface
• XTypeProvider
• XServiceInfo
• XWeak
• XComponent
• XInitialization
• XMain
• XAggregation
• XUnoTunnel

• Simple Component in Java

• Class Definition with Helper Class
• Implementing Your Own Interfaces
• Providing a Single Factory Using a Helper Method
• Write Registration Info Using a Helper Method
• Implementing without Helpers
• Storing the Service Manager for Further Use
• Create Instance with Arguments
• Possible Structures for Java Components
• Running and Debugging Java Components

• Register Component File
• Make Registration Available to OpenOffice.org
• Test the Registration
• Debugging
• The Java Environment in OpenOffice.org
• Troubleshooting

• C++ Component

• Class Definition with Helper Template Classes
• Implementing your own Interfaces
• Providing a Single Factory Using a Helper Method
• Write Registration Info Using a Helper Method
• Provide Implementation Environment
• Implementing without Helpers
• Storing the Service Manager for Further Use
• Create Instance with Arguments
• Multiple Components in One Dynamic Link Library
• Building and Testing C++ Components

• Integrating Components into OpenOffice.org

• Protocol Handler

• Implementation
• Configuration
• Installation

• Jobs

• Execution Environment
• Implementation
• Initialization
• Returning Results
• Configuration
• Installation
• Using the vnd.sun.star.jobs: URL Schema
• List of Supported Events

• Add-Ons

• Guidelines
• Configuration

• Menus
• Toolbars
• Images for Toolbars and Menus
• Help Integration

• Installation

• Disable Commands
• Intercepting Context Menus

• File Naming Conventions
• Deployment Options for Components

• Command Line Registry Tools
• Manual Component Installation
• Bootstrapping a Service Manager
• Special Service Manager Configurations

• The UNO Executable

• Standalone Use Case
• Server Use Case
• Using the UNO Executable

• Accessing Dialogs

• Assigning Component Methods to Control Events
• Using Dialogs in Components

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This chapter describes how UNO Components can interact with dialogs that have been created with the Dialog Editor integrated in the Apache OpenOffice Basic IDE. Before OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 dialogs designed with this Dialog Editor could only be reasonably used in the context of Apache OpenOffice Basic respectively in the scope of the Scripting Framework (see Scripting Framework ). The reason for this restriction was the fact that only scripts managed by the Scripting Framework could be assigned as action to control events. It was already possible to instantiate dialogs using the com.sun.star.awt.XDialogProvider API, but there was no other way to get call backs from the events as to directly add listeners using the corresponding AWT control interfaces. This is a very inconvenient way to use dialogs created with the Dialog Editor.

From OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 also component methods can be bound to control events. The following chapters describe both how the binding to component methods is done in Dialog Editor and how the component has to be designed to use this mechanism.

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See Also

• Managing a Dialog in a Component
• Going further with Dialog and Components

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