Hi Andrew
I had read the document and had hoped this might have changed. From a
professional point of view some customers dictate that a mouse pointer must
be changed to a hour glass if an action cannot be completed in a
pre-determined amount of time.
So anyway, I've done a belts and braces job for now
added a MailMergeEventListener which gets triggered each time the Mail Merge
routine processes another row so my block of code looks like -
oMailMerge = CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.text.MailMerge")
oMailMerge.DocumentURL = ConvertToUrl(DirectoryName & "/" & "nwcircMaster"
& ".odt")
oMailMerge.DataSourceName = "NWcirculation"
oMailMerge.CommandType = 1
'oMailMerge.Command = "qrySUBSCRIBERS"
oMailMerge.Command = "Query_SUBSCRIBERS_For_Wrappers"
oMailMerge.OutputType = com.sun.star.text.MailMergeType.FILE
oMailMerge.OutputUrl = ConvertToUrl(DirectoryName)
oMailMerge.FileNamePrefix = sColour & "Merged"
oMailMerge.SaveAsSingleFile=True
oMailMerge.FileNameFromColumn=False
oMailMerge.Filter="COLOUR='" & sColour & "'"
oListener1 = createUNOListener("MailMergeListener_",
"com.sun.star.text.XMailMergeListener")
oMailMerge.addMailMergeEventListener(oListener1)
oMailMerge.execute(Array())
added these two subroutines and a dialog with a progress bar. The dialog is
shown just before the mail merge process starts and the progress bar
increments each time the merge completes another row -
Sub MailMergeListener_notifyMailMergeEvent( oEv As Object )
cursorWait
ProgressValue = ProgressValue + 1
oProgressBarModel.setPropertyValue( "ProgressValue", ProgressValue )
End Sub
Sub MailMergeListener_disposing()
End Sub
Seems to work quite nicely, though I would like to drop the title bar of the
dialog so all the user sees is the incrementing progress bar.
Note that in the subroutine, MailMergeListener_notifyMailMergeEvent, I've
got a call to another subroutine called cursorWait which is -
Sub cursorWait()
Dim oWindow As Object
Dim oPointer As Object
oWindow = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame.ComponentWindow window
oPointer = createUnoService("com.sun.star.awt.Pointer")
oPointer.SetType(com.sun.star.awt.SystemPointer.WAIT)
changeMousePointerRecursively(oPointer, oWindow)
End sub
sub changeMousePointerRecursively(oMousePointer as object, oWin as object)
on error resume next
oWin.setPointer(oMousePointer)
if HasUnoInterfaces(oWin, "com.sun.star.awt.XVclContainer") then
oWindows = oWin.Windows
for k=0 to UBound(oWindows)
call changeMousePointerRecursively(oMousePointer,
oWindows(k))
next k
endif
end sub
With the above, the pointer is presented as an hourglass most of the time,
occasionally it changes to the Text Insert shape but then quickly reverts
back to the hourglass. I did try listening on the MouseMotionListener and
placing a call to cursorWait there but when there was excessive movement of
the mouse the application ground to a halt, but then if a user is randomly
moving the mouse whilst the application is running they may deserve a slow
running application!
Any other suggestions gratefully received.
Iain
On Sunday 24 Mar 2013 18:04:30 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Read section "5.21. Changing The Mouse Cursor" in AndrewMacro.odt,
which discusses this topic. It begins as follows:
The quick answer is: This is not supported.
A desire to change the mouse cursor sparked an interesting discussion
that I took the time to follow but I did not test. I have edited the
messages for brevity.
.....
Includes who said what with example code.
On 03/21/2013 01:31 PM, mcmurchy1917-libreoffice@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
I've built a database, using Base, which amongst other things produces a
mailing list. On my 10 year old DeskTop it can take several minutes to
produce the list.
I want to show some activity to the users, so the mouse cursor morphing
into an HourGlass would suit me fine.
I've got this to work as long as I don't move the mouse. The code is -
oFrame = StarDesktop.CurrentFrame
oWindow = oFrame.getContainerWindow()
oPointer = createUnoService("com.sun.star.awt.Pointer")
oPointer.SetType(com.sun.star.awt.SystemPointer.WAIT)
oWindow.setPointer(oPointer)
However, If I move the mouse the cursor reverts back to the appropriate
style for the control which it is over.
From several discussions there seems to be an indication that I need to
disable the mousemotionlisteners. In going any further I seem to have
hit
a
brick wall.
Can anyone advise what I should do to keep the cursor displaying the
hourglass during the duration of a task irrespective as the whether the
mouse moves or not.
Thanks