Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic ChDir not functioning on Windows 7

Thanks, Regina, for your reply.  The information was helpful.

Unfortunately, this "totally outdated" function is actually necessary.

I have developed a dll to be called from Basic.  The dll must be
declared in a Basic Declare statement, and that statement requires
that the name of the dll be enclosed in quotations.   If I hard code
the full pathname to the dll in the Declare statement, it all works fine.

The problem is that my client has international offices, and I have no
idea what the path on any given engineer's machine will be.  I know the
name of the dll file itself, and one of the user inputs in the spreadsheet
is
selection of the path to the dll, which is then stored in Basic as a
variable.   By setting the directory using the ChDir statement, the
dll is found and all works well.

As I understand it, the Declare statement cannot use a variable for the
library name.   Hence the need for the ChDir.

The alternative of forcing the clients to put the dll somewhere in the
search
path is not acceptable.   The clients are engineers without administrator
privileges.

I'm not sure what you mean by "totally outdated".  Is there some
alternative?

Thanks,
Peter


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Peter J. Puchyr, M.Sc., P.Eng.
SpaceTime Simulation Corp.
(507) 6787-0615 (cell in Panamá)


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:23, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de>wrote:

> Ho Peter,
>
> pjpuchyr schrieb:
>
>  I have a Basic macro in Calc, which includes a ChDir statement.  This
> > compiles and executes with no error, but does not in fact change the
> > working
> > directory.  Looking in the source code (I've not yet ever done a build), I
> > see that there is an #ifdef in the code.  Does anyone know if this define
> > is
> > turned on for Windows systems?
>
> That is bug http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30692
> I guess, it will get a "wontfix" because this function is totally outdated.
> The problem is documented in the help.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
>
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