Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: launching app from within base

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:07 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Hopefully one of the guides here might help
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Programmers
> Good luck and regards from
Hi Tom

Actually a google search for "libreoffice shell command" brings up:
http://help.libreoffice.org/Basic/Shell_Function_Runtime

Which is pretty good starting point.

//drew

> --- On Tue, 24/4/12, drew jensen <drewjensen.inbox@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: drew jensen <drewjensen.inbox@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: launching app from within base
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Tuesday, 24 April, 2012, 2:21
>
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:37 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > Le 23/04/12 16:17, brainflakes a écrit :
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > For instance, If one had a database of images, at various locations,  a
> > > click of the mouse (say on an icon provided in the search result form next
> > > to the image name) could launch photoshop with the path/filename of the
> > > image file and photoshop would load the image ready for editing. LO base
> > > provides the search mechanism, photoshop provides the editing features.
> > >
> > > I don't know why someone wouldn't want this feature. I've used this in
> > > filemaker and it has been a great time saver.
> >
> > Ah, you mean clickable links in Base that might actually do something
> > useful ;-)
> >
> > Well, you won't find anything out of the box, you would have to code it
> > using a script, e.g. LO Basic. use cURL to take the name of the file
> > then pass it to the "shell" command - I had read somewhere a while ago
> > though that this didn't actually work anymore. Anyway you're going to
> > have to experiment with Basic or some other supported scripting language
> > if you want to do that.
> Hi Alex
>
> Right - that is the answer and it is very very simple.
>
> //drew
>
>
>
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