[Solved] Macro Not Displaying (Fedora)

[Campbell1992]

Hi I'm writing a report and would like a macro that gave me a live word count so I stumbled upon http://bitbucket.org/yawaramin/oo.o-liv ... /wiki/Home. I downloaded wc.py moved it into ~/.openoffice.org/3/user/Scripts/python and it's definitely there I've checked. However when I go into Tools/macros/runmacro... then mymacros standard module 1 wc.py does not appear in the right hand pannel. I have tried changing its privileges to all rwx ect... with no success I have also tried changing my security options to medium and adding the location as a trusted source also to no avail. Any Idea's on how I can get it working I searched round before posting this sorry if something similar has come up before. I'm using OO3.20 on fedora 13

Thanks

[FJCC]

If I'm following you correctly, I would not expect wc.py to appear in the Standard library. It should appear as its own library directly under My Macros

[Campbell1992]

Ok sorry my mistake however it is not appearing under my macros either. Any ideas of why that could be?

[therabi]

Hi I'm writing a report and would like a macro that gave me a live word count so I stumbled upon http://bitbucket.org/yawaramin/oo.o-liv ... /wiki/Home. I downloaded wc.py moved it into ~/.openoffice.org/3/user/Scripts/python and it's definitely there I've checked. However when I go into Tools/macros/runmacro... then mymacros standard module 1 wc.py does not appear in the right hand pannel. I have tried changing its privileges to all rwx ect... with no success I have also tried changing my security options to medium and adding the location as a trusted source also to no avail. Any Idea's on how I can get it working I searched round before posting this sorry if something similar has come up before. I'm using OO3.20 on fedora 13

Thanks

Works here under Ubuntu 9.10 and Go-oo3.2 and OOo 3.3 RC5.

[Campbell1992]

Hmmm very strange is there a way i can check that OO is looking for macro's in that folder? Because the file is definitely in there. By the way I installed Open office using yum install if that makes any difference.

[therabi]

I can not find a way to tell where OOo looks for macros. The only place that I see it is Tools> Macros> Organize> Python

[Campbell1992]

It doesn't appear under Tools> Marcos> Organizemacros either

[therabi]

It should appear at Tools> Macros> Organize Macros> Python then you get the screen above.

[Campbell1992]

That's what I see

[therabi]

Wow, that does not look good. That must be the Fedora version. Can you update to another version?

[Campbell1992]

Yeah exactly what I thought that it wasn't too good. I think I may uninstall it then install from source as yum update (the fedora equivalent to apt-get) says there is no update.

[RoryOF]

You could install the version from http://download.openoffice.org/ rather than the Fedora version.

[Campbell1992]

Thanks I might give that a go http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93994 this is the same problem and it says resolved but the attachement is just a text file any idea if this could help fix the issue?

[RoryOF]

Sorry. no idea. I don't need to do macros.

[Campbell1992]

Ok thanks anyway I'll install the standard version and post on if it works or not.

[Campbell1992]

Hi, thank you everyone for your help in the end I followed these instructions http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2 ... -hat-rhel/ to remove my current version of OOo and install another. Others should note when following these instructions that you should not install the update suggested after installation as it will cause your copy of OOo not to work to ignore updates of this package do the following.

Change directory too etc:

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cd /etc

Change permission of yum.conf

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sudo chmod u+w yum.conf

Open yum.conf in gedit:

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gedit yum.conf

Add the following code to the bottom of the file:

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exclude=openoffice.org-ure*

Then click save and restart for changes to take effect

Also make sure you are not a root user when you first run openoffice or it will not work as a standard user

The above instructions are for fedora users only.