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From: Vieri <rentorbuy@yahoo.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org; mcmurchy1917-libreoffice@yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 12:16
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields
Thanks!
Making progress... finally.
Your code actually retrieved the text within my first "text box" (which is at least something!) but
then it fails with the error:
LibreOffice 4.0.2.2
BASIC runtime error.
'423'
Text
it points to line:
Print x.getName() & " : " & x.Text
It may be choking on a "formatted field" within the document.
Just out of curiosity, how did you know that you had to use ThisComponent.DrawPage.Forms? As a novice, I find
the documentation to be quite confusing and a supposedly "simple" task such as getting text field
values seems to be quite difficult. I mean, I found examples on the net and they all start with something
like:
vEnum = ThisComponent.getTextFields().createEnumeration()
If Not IsNull(vEnum) Then
Do While vEnum.hasMoreElements()
vVal = vEnum.nextElement()
but then I either don't know how to continue or the examples I found on the net don't work (maybe
outdated OO or LO versions).
BTW, is there an IDE that can auto-complete Basic code (eg. vVal.??? as in the example above).
Thanks,
Vieri
--- On Wed, 5/8/13, mcmurchy1917-libreoffice@yahoo.co.uk <mcmurchy1917-libreoffice@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
I've created two "Text Boxes" in a
form in a writer document.
I can iterate over them like this grabbing the text as I go
Sub EnumerateFields
oDoc = ThisComponent
oDrawPage = oDoc.DrawPage
oForm = oDrawPage.Forms.GetByIndex(0)
For i = 0 To oForm.getCount()-1
x =
oForm.getByIndex(i)
Print
x.getName() & " : " & x.Text
Next
End Sub
Does this help in anyway?
Iain
On Wednesday 08 May 2013 01:50:02 Vieri wrote:
--- On Tue, 5/7/13, Vieri <rentorbuy@yahoo.com>
wrote:
--- On Mon, 5/6/13, Andrew Douglas
Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org>
wrote:
On 05/06/2013 05:21 AM, Vieri wrote:
Hi,
I have an odt writer document with 2
input text
fields
(added with the form designer toolbar). I
manually type
text
into one of the fields. I copy/pasted a macro
to see if
I
could grab the text within the input field
but haven't
had
any luck. This is the test macro in Basic:
Sub EnumerateFields
vEnum =
ThisComponent.getTextFields().createEnumeration()
If Not IsNull(vEnum) Then
If
vEnum.hasMoreElements() Then
Print "OK"
Else
Print "NOT
OK"
End If
End If
End Sub
If I manually run this macro I get the
"NOT OK"
message.
What am I doing wrong?
What is the correct way of getting the
text field
elements?
Thanks
Vieri
I grabbed these two routines from my test
modules
without
running them first....
Hi,
Thanks for the reply but I'm still having
trouble.
I'm either way off-course, misusing LO or making a
dumb
rookie mistake.
I copied your macros to my odt document.
I then did a "tools, macros, run macro..." and
selected the
Subs I copied.
If I run EnumerateTextFields then it yields the
"Finished"
message box (nothing else).
If I run DisplayMasterFields then it yields the
following
message:
===Text Field Masters===
(com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.SetExpression.Illustration,Illustration)
(com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.SetExpression.Table,Table)
(com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.SetExpression.Text,Text)
(com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.SetExpression.Drawing,Drawing)
My odt document has 2 input fields in a form.
By the way, if I place a button within my form and
configure
the "Mouse button pressed" to launch, say,
EnumerateTextFields then I get the following error
message:
"LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 BASIC runtime error. '423'
getTextFields" and it points at the line:
"oEnum =
oDoc.getTextFields().createEnumeration()"
I'm stuck on something that should be quite
simple.
I'm attaching my odt file hoping that someone can
tell me
what novice mistake I'm making.
Trying to attach the file again but it seems that the
mailing list strips it
out.
Thanks,
Vieri
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