Re: Inserting Graphics in a Writer document

Niklas Johansson wrote:

> If I were you I would set the Anchor before I insert the image into the 
> document. So change the order of these lines:
>
>      xText.insertTextContent(cursor, oGraphic, False)
>      # Setting the anchor type - must be done first, otherwise the graphic will be put after the 
> //
>      oGraphic.AnchorType = AS_CHARACTER

YES!! That solves it. Thans a lot.

> Once the image is inserted into the document you won't always be able to 
> change the anchor as you try to do in the code above. For some reason it 
> works in your first example but as you can see it won't work in your 
> second example.

I did is as it was done in the Java code.

> So remember to always change the anchor of the graphic before you insert 
> it otherwise you'll get more of these nice surprises. If I remember 
> correctly there are a few more settings that should be done to the 
> graphic object before it's inserted and some that needs to be set after, 
> but I don't remember the details at the moment.

I hope that these things are documented somewhere.

> It seems that what is happening in the second case is that the image 
> gets inserted before the anchor-change and when the re-anchoring occurs 
> the image is already in the wrong position.
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