Libre/openoffice Writer

[MarcoMonte]

Hello guys,

are you aware about some kind of UDF functions and/or way to interact with libreoffice Writer?

I found just a UDF pack that works with Calc.

Thanks

Marco

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@MarcoMonte
You may find something useful in the UDF Reference

[MarcoMonte]

9 minutes ago, FrancescoDiMuro said:

@MarcoMonte
You may find something useful in the UDF Reference

Hi Fra', 

there is nothing about Writer there, just for Calc...

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@MarcoMonte
Did you try the first UDF?
It seems to work with LibreOffice too
Sorry, I misread your request.
Seems that there's no LibreOffice Writer UDF, but you could use the LibreOffice SDK to make your own

Edited December 18, 2020 by FrancescoDiMuro

[MarcoMonte]

Oh thanks, 

I have never used a SDK , I will try.

I can use it with Autoit Right? Do you know some example?

 

[mLipok]

As far as I remeber there was some function on the forum , which was related to OOO Writer and a feature which will give you a possibility to save documents as PDF.

 

[mLipok]

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/7.0.4/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.0.4_Win_x64_sdk.msi

 

"c:\Program Files\LibreOffice_7.0_SDK\sdk\examples\OLE\vbscript\WriterDemo.vbs" 

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'The service manager is always the starting point
'If there is no office running then an office is started up
Set objServiceManager= WScript.CreateObject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")

'Create the CoreReflection service that is later used to create structs
Set objCoreReflection= objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")

'Create the Desktop
Set objDesktop= objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")

'Open a new empty writer document
Dim args()  
Set objDocument= objDesktop.loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/swriter", "_blank", 0, args)

'Create a text object
Set objText= objDocument.getText

'Create a cursor object
Set objCursor= objText.createTextCursor

'Inserting some Text
objText.insertString objCursor, "The first line in the newly created text document." & vbLf, false
  
'Inserting a second line
objText.insertString objCursor, "Now we're in the second line", false

'Create instance of a text table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Set objTable= objDocument.createInstance( "com.sun.star.text.TextTable")
objTable.initialize 4, 4

'Insert the table
objText.insertTextContent objCursor, objTable, false

'Get first row
Set objRows= objTable.getRows
Set objRow= objRows.getByIndex( 0)

'Set the table background color
objTable.setPropertyValue "BackTransparent", false
objTable.setPropertyValue            "BackColor", 13421823

'Set a different background color for the first row
objRow.setPropertyValue "BackTransparent", false
objRow.setPropertyValue "BackColor", 6710932

'Fill the first table row
insertIntoCell "A1","FirstColumn", objTable 
insertIntoCell "B1","SecondColumn", objTable
insertIntoCell "C1","ThirdColumn", objTable
insertIntoCell "D1","SUM", objTable

objTable.getCellByName("A2").setValue 22.5
objTable.getCellByName("B2").setValue 5615.3
objTable.getCellByName("C2").setValue -2315.7
objTable.getCellByName("D2").setFormula"sum <A2:C2>"
    
objTable.getCellByName("A3").setValue 21.5
objTable.getCellByName("B3").setValue 615.3
objTable.getCellByName("C3").setValue -315.7
objTable.getCellByName("D3").setFormula "sum <A3:C3>"
           
objTable.getCellByName("A4").setValue 121.5
objTable.getCellByName("B4").setValue -615.3
objTable.getCellByName("C4").setValue 415.7
objTable.getCellByName("D4").setFormula "sum <A4:C4>"
    
'Change the CharColor and add a Shadow
objCursor.setPropertyValue "CharColor", 255
objCursor.setPropertyValue "CharShadowed", true

'Create a paragraph break
'The second argument is a com::sun::star::text::ControlCharacter::PARAGRAPH_BREAK constant
objText.insertControlCharacter objCursor, 0 , false

'Inserting colored Text.
objText.insertString objCursor, " This is a colored Text - blue with shadow" & vbLf, false

'Create a paragraph break ( ControlCharacter::PARAGRAPH_BREAK).
objText.insertControlCharacter objCursor, 0, false 
      
'Create a TextFrame.
Set objTextFrame= objDocument.createInstance("com.sun.star.text.TextFrame")

'Create a Size struct.
Set objSize= createStruct("com.sun.star.awt.Size")
objSize.Width= 15000
objSize.Height= 400
objTextFrame.setSize( objSize)

' TextContentAnchorType.AS_CHARACTER = 1
objTextFrame.setPropertyValue "AnchorType", 1

'insert the frame
objText.insertTextContent objCursor, objTextFrame, false

'Get the text object of the frame
Set objFrameText= objTextFrame.getText


'Create a cursor object
Set objFrameTextCursor= objFrameText.createTextCursor
    
'Inserting some Text
objFrameText.insertString objFrameTextCursor, "The first line in the newly created text frame.", _
                          false    
objFrameText.insertString objFrameTextCursor, _
                          vbLf & "With this second line the height of the frame raises.", false 

'Create a paragraph break
'The second argument is a com::sun::star::text::ControlCharacter::PARAGRAPH_BREAK constant
objFrameText.insertControlCharacter objCursor, 0 , false

'Change the CharColor and add a Shadow
objCursor.setPropertyValue "CharColor", 65536
objCursor.setPropertyValue "CharShadowed", false

'Insert another string
objText.insertString objCursor, " That's all for now !!", false      

On Error Resume Next
If Err Then
  MsgBox "An error occurred"
End If 


Sub insertIntoCell( strCellName, strText, objTable) 
    Set objCellText= objTable.getCellByName( strCellName)
    Set objCellCursor= objCellText.createTextCursor
    objCellCursor.setPropertyValue "CharColor",16777215
    objCellText.insertString objCellCursor, strText, false
End Sub

Function createStruct( strTypeName)
    Set classSize= objCoreReflection.forName( strTypeName)
    Dim aStruct
    classSize.createObject aStruct
    Set createStruct= aStruct
End Function

 

Edited December 29, 2020 by mLipok

[mLipok]

 

On 12/18/2020 at 2:48 PM, MarcoMonte said:

are you aware about some kind of UDF functions and/or way to interact with libreoffice Writer?

 

And here it is:  WriterDemo.au3

 

Edited December 30, 2020 by mLipok

[mLipok]

And fixed version: WriterDemo.au3

Fix is related to this function:

Func createStruct($sTypeName)
    Local $oServiceManager = ObjCreate("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")
    Local $oReturn = $oServiceManager.Bridge_GetStruct($sTypeName)
    Return $oReturn

#cs THIS FOLLOWING COMMENTED CODE SNIPPET WAS TAKEN FROM ORIGINAL WriterDemo.vbs
    Local $classSize = $oCoreReflection.forName($sTypeName)

    Local $aStruct[0]
    $classSize.createObject($aStruct)

    Return $aStruct
#ce
EndFunc   ;==>createStruct

 

Edited December 30, 2020 by mLipok