Re: [LIbreOffice][SDK] Help needed for a wrapper library written over LibreOffice SDK

Hello Eike,

> You can use XText::setString() to set an empty string, which effectively
> clears any content, but just only the content. The XText interface is
> exported by the Cell service.

Thank you! This works well.

The class reference did not list this as member hence I never saw this.
api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/interfacecom_1_1sun_1_1star_1_1text_1_1XText.html
(The generalization (forgive me, if I'm wrong with the terminology)
had the method, which I had missed)  :(


> Otherwise, clearContents() IS the canonical method to clear cell content
> and formatting, actually at the sheet::XSheetOperation interface which
> is exported by the sheet::SheetCellRange and sheet::SheetCellRanges
> sevices. You probably obtained the XCell from one of those already, so
> you could obtain that one cell as sub-range using
> getCellRangeByPosition() if the existing range encompasses more than the
> cell(s) to be cleared.

Is there any benefit in using this ? I do use them but I discard them
when I get the Cell Instance.

> > 2. [... clang ...]
>
> Clang may have issues with the SDK, but I don't know details.

Thank You for your help. I appreciate that you took your time out for
helping me out.

Anurag Ghosh