Not possible to edit the menu added by addons.xcu at runtime.
I have used to add a menu by addons.xcu with popup menu controller which can be edit while at runtime, see: https://github.com/hanya/BookmarksMenu

I mean Id node in your node defined under OptionsDialog/Nodes.Leaves. If Id value is the same with the extension identifier of yoru extension package, the extension manager enables option button to show your options dialog.

Hi,
Id value should be matched to extension identifier defiend in description.xml to show your options dialog in the extension manager.

Post by calling statusChanged with FeatureStateEvent.State = bool in your dispatch object.
So you need dispatch object and you have to receive object which implements css.frame.XStatusListener when your dispatch provider is called.

If you have "zip" file extension, the office recognize the package as regacy package. In that case, description.xml file is not used.
You have to add "oxt" file extension to your package name.

Regarding embedded scripts in a document, I do not remember finding a way to do this for pythonpath. You mentioned that it's not impossible. Would you care to provide a link or more information? See code of checkForPythonPathBesideScript function in pythonscript.py file. To make built-in import fun...

Some properties of the grid are not implemented internally. You could not change font descriptor related properties on the grid control. These properties are not passed from the model to the internal grid implementation even you specify.

Push Ctrl + H while the listing window has focus to open or close the code window. This is described in help files of the MRI.

Why don't you save data in your code? If your service supports callHandlerMethod method for the option page hander which implements com.sun.star.awt.XContainerWindowEventHandler interface, you can obtain event notification when user push OK button on the options page. Like the following in Python: d...

Villeroy wrote:MRI does not work with recent versions of LibreOffice.

Do you mean on LibreOffice 5.2.X? I can use MRI 1.3.3 on LibreOffice 5.2.0.4 with Xubuntu 16.04.1.

It seems good.
APP_FONT unit contains both device resolution and zooming by the option. So you need some information to calculate it yourself without these methods. But we can use these methods to convert between pixcel and app_font units.

The Width and Height properties are described in APPFONT unit but size of the dialog is in real pixels. See the following conversion between these units: Sub dialog1_test ' needs Dialog1 d = CreateUnoDialog(DialogLibraries.Standard.Dialog1) width = d.Model.Width size = CreateUnoStruct("com.sun....

Welcom to the forum.

You have to pass some flags to your compiler. See Makefile in the SDK examples and sdk/settings direcotry.

Locale data can be obtained by the interface is defined in /main/i18npool/source/localedata/data. These files contain only country data in English, so you can not obtained by the localized country name by the interface. In the case of el-GR, see the following file. I could not see the file for grc-G...

There is com.sun.star.util.TextSearch service which provides way to use internal regular expression engine through the API. Substitution function can be written with it line the following in the Basic. I have not test the code well, so it might contain some bugs. Sub Main a = RegExSubst("ABCdef...

Of course I know who writes this stuff. In most cases it's you. MS Office has millions of developers who are able to turn ideas into office add-ins. Just one question: I want LibreOffice to to handle hyperlinks with protocol vnd.sun.star.script: like OpenOffice does. Could I use your protocol handl...

Another extension that came up today is AdjustRowHeight extension . I can read the source code. I can read the related documentation. I stare at it over and over again. For the life of me, I do not understand how it works or how one gets the idea to put things together like this. This is by far too...

Here is an example extension written in Python. - Install through the extension manager. - Restart your office. - Create new Writer document. - Choose Tools - AutoCorrect Options... in the main menu. You can see Smart Tags tab in the opened dialog. You can switch to use or not to use registered reco...

I tried to imagin a wrapper component of the smarttags for the Basic, but it would not so interesting. Because all smarttags require own registration of the component with own implementation name under smart tag service in the office component registry. The wrapper installed from an extension packag...

I've tried to make small extension which uses SmartTags function in Python. It requires component impolementations, so it can not be implemented only with Basic.

The attached SidebarHelperForMacros.oxt does not work on LO 5.1 or later (maybe LO 5.0 or later). Because com.sun.star.ui.XSidebarPanel::getMinimalWidth method has been added. No method on the instance of the UI element crashes the office. Here is the fixed extension package attached. Replace Sideba...

Welcom to the forum. With execute hack, making your dialog unclosable is hard. I've turned the closeable() property in UnoControlDialogModel to false but it didnt work. The Closeable property should be specified before the peer of the window is created. But if you instantiate your dialog with Create...

Have you implemented and deproyed the service that provides your option page, which is defined in EventHandlerService prop of the Options configuration? If you have add the service but the page is not shown, you have to check your service. The service have to implement the following interfaces: - co...

The API is well documented for other languages such as Java and Basic. Both language bindings are well match with Python's one. So most people do not need documents only for written in Python.

How about to call sal_detail_initialize function?See sdk/include/sal/main.h

Add namespace like following:

So you want to add own configuration. See: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... ation_Data
Netbeans plugin might have the function to help you to define configuration schema, but I'm not really sure.

Do you mean Tools - Options dialog? If you say so, we have the document in the following page and its sub pages, click Next Page > link to see sub pages in the TOC.
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... ons_Dialog

You have to work with css.text.XText interface taken from the text frame. rTextContent1->getAnchor() returns the text range which the same place where the text frame is there on the document. The range have to there in the frame. Here is the code written in Basic. Sub Snippet5 oTextFrames = ThisComp...

Extensions which contains own menu elements has the following things in general: - /org.openoffice.Office.Addons configuration, aka Addons.xcu. Your menu entry have the URI to call your task through the protocol handler. - protocol handler component written in language you have choosen. In this case...