Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically (a Star Basic macro)

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Thank you.

It has probably been more than 20 years since I studied any flavor of Basic and I have not been 
able to find what dir("path/file.ext") or dir() are supposed to do. That is why I said that the 
"while" loop appears to be suspect. My guess is that the former returns "path/" while the latter 
returns an empty string. I must be wrong since that would prevent the macro from accomplishing the 
desired task. But, then again, I fail to see any result when I attempt to use this macro. Maybe I 
need to do more than exit from LO before I start it again in order to activate the Subroutine?

-- 
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: "Andreas Säger" <villeroy@t-online.de>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 31 May 2015 13:54
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically (a Star Basic macro)

Am 31.05.2015 um 22:43 schrieb James E Lang:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Your Star Basic macro looks very interesting. It is not super complex (initialization, a loop, 
> and a super simple supporting function). Has anyone given it a test drive?
>
> As I read the macro, the while loop looks suspect. Isn't it testing the length of a directory 
> name [ dir("path/file.ext") ] instead of a file name? And, won't it operate on no more than one 
> entity? I thought the idea was to automatically open zero or more office document files when 
> soffice starts running.
>
> It also could probably be made more robust by adding a supporting function that validates the 
> file's extension. Just a thought.

File name extensions are meaningless. LibreOffice tries to open any file
regardless of its extension. Rename a file to .xyz and open with
LibreOffice.
My code should have an error handler for unsupported (possibly broken)
files so the loop can continue in case of any error. That's it.


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