Jim,
That was it! Or, almost. I changed the line to:
oText.insertTextContent(oVC, oAnno, True)
And the annotation now gets attached to the whole range.
I wish I knew how to find the documentation for these functions! I don't
know what the various parameters actually d -- what is the final Boolean
doing there? How do you know?
But in any case, many thanks for solving htis problem, it's actually
pretty
awesome to be able to do this with a single keystroke!
m
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes@comcast.net>
wrote:
On 11/19/2014 10:55 AM, Matt Price wrote:
Thanks Tom,
I've just spent some time looking htrough Andrew Pitonyak's macro
guide.
It helps a little but there doesn't seem to be any direct
documentation of
hte functions. What I'm looking at is the second line reproduced
below:
oVC = ThisComponent.CurrentController.ViewCursor
oText.insertTextContent(oVC.Start, oAnno, False)
Matt,
I don't use Writer much and honestly I'm not sure what you expect to
see.
Try this. In the above two lines change Start to End and False to True
and
put those two lines right under your "rem I don't know what to put in
here"
line. Then select some text and run the macro.
Regards, Jim
I think oVC.Start needs to be replaced with something else, but I can't
figure out what. All of Andrew's examples with insertTextContent
insert
the content at a single location, not at a text range, so maybe I need
a
different function. If someone knows another method I'd appreciate the
advice.
Thanks,
Matt
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi :)
The best documentation is at;
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
and the most recent full books are also on the official LibreOffice
website.
For macros i think the best book by far is Andrew Pitonyak's guide on
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_
Documentation_and_Resources#Programmers
I'm not sure they will help for this specific use-case but they might
help
generally.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 19 November 2014 16:05, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to add a really simple macro that I can bind to a key. I
just
want ot be able ot add checkmarks to student papers veyr quickly, so
I
would like to select a sentence or other text range, then press a
key,
and
have the ckeckmark appear in a new comment.
I can almost do htis, using code stolen from the web:
rem-------------------------------------------
rem -- misleadingly named macro adds a simple hceckmark at point, or
in
response to highlighted text.
sub createComment
rem create the annotation object
oAnno =
ThisComponent.createInstance("com.sun.star.text.textfield.Annotation")
rem Chr 10004 is the decimal for hex code 2714, "heavy
checkmark"
oAnno.Content = Chr(10004)
oAnno.Author = "Matt Price"
oText = ThisComponent.Text
rem check to see if anything is selected
oSels = ThisComponent.getCurrentSelection()
If Not IsNull(oSels) Then
rem I don't know what to put in here
Else
oVC = ThisComponent.CurrentController.ViewCursor
oText.insertTextContent(oVC.Start, oAnno, False)
End If
end sub
-----------------------
You can see that, if there's no selection, I already know how to
insert
the
annotation. But I don't know how to attach the annotation to the
selected
range instead of just the start of the cursor.
In general, I don't know where to find the funciton references or
even
the
source code for the relevant functions. I'm finding it quite
difficult
to
figure out how to learn to program -- is there comprehensive
documentation
somewhere?
Thanks,
Matt
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