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

Johnny, Regina ,

under "tools" we have a function GetProductName()
who returns for me "LibreOffice4.2"

hope it helps

Fernand

> 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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