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On 11/19/2014 12:30 PM, Matt Price wrote:

So, I gues there is an API reference:
http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/index.html


I had trouble loading that page.

I usually use the OpenOffice one at:
 http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/index-files/index-1.html


But unfortunately it doesn't give direct documentation for Basic
functions.  I found this document instead, which tells me where in the API
the actual function calls come from:
Yes, lack of more comprehensive documentation is a real pain. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than myself will comment on what I am about to write if I am wrong. With the exception of ThisComponent, what you refer to as Basic functions are not really Basic functions at all. Basic simply uses functions/methods supplied by Uno. I could write the same macro in Python but still use the same functions.
To me Uno is a huge complex beast that is sparsely documented and hard to use, but very powerful if you understand it. 

 Regards, Jim


http://bernard.marcelly.perso.sfr.fr/index2.html

The useful macros are embedded in the "XRay Tool".  It would sure be nice
to have something like this in the BASIC editor itself - -I am used to
having access to functions & documentation when I'm trying to program!





On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi :)
On a linux command-line you can type whatever command and then add a
"--help" or "-h" tag to get a really neat quick-cheat-sheet, 2 examples;

ls --help
dir -h

Also can often type a command after "man" (short for manual) to get a much
more verbose, but still quite geeky, detail about what the command can do.
So;

man ls
man dir

Also just typing

help
info

often gives quite a bit of general help.

Is there anything like that for macros?
Regards from
Tom :)



On 19 November 2014 17:59, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:


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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