Re: [libreoffice-users] Is there a way for a Basic macro to detect what application is running it?

Hi Johnny,

You might distinguish it with Basic function IsUnoStruct?

Kind regards
Regina

Johnny Rosenberg schrieb:
> Here's my problem:
>
> I have both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice installed and I use them
> both. I have quite a few Calc files with Basic macros. Today I found my
> first difference between the Basic API in LibreOffice vs. Apache OpenOffice:
>
> Dim Dlg As Object, Ctl As Object
> DialogLibraries.LoadLibrary("Standard")
> Dlg=CreateUnoDialog(DialogLibraries.Standard.ElDialog)
> Ctl=Dlg.getControl("DateField")
>
> Now, I want to use Ctl.setDate(myDate) and myDate=Ctl.getDate(), and here's
> the difference:
> In Apache OpenOffice, myDate is a Long. Today's date, 2014-10-19, is
> represented as 20141019. I made two functions to convert to and from the
> format I needed.
>
> When running my macro in LibreOffice, the macro was interrupted by an error
> message, of course. After some debugging I found that the LibreOffice
> version of Ctl.setDate/Ctl.getDate works with a struct:
> Type DateType
> Year As Long
> Month As Long
> Day As Long
> End Type
>
>
> This is of course not a big deal, I can make the macro accept both formats,
> but the macro need to know if LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice is running
> it. How can I do that? I have tried to find the answer myself, both using
> xray and searching the web, but so far nothing.




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