[Solved] Addon - Manipulation of Menu added with addons.xcu

[JulianR]

Hi!

I have been working on an extension and I wanted to add my own menu entry to Calc, while I can do this with addons.xcu file, I can't later find that menu entry with service com.sun.star.ui.ModuleUIConfigurationManagerSupplier. I can mess with every default menu entry (like with say File/New), add my own menu and entries, but I can't find the entry, that was added with addons.xcu.

Anyone knows if it is possible access those entries with some other UNO service? And If it is possible to manipulate them at runtime?

[hanya]

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

[JulianR]

Thanks.

[hubert lambert]

Hi,

A menu added by configuration file is merge in the global configuration registry. Some changes can be made by directly accessing the later.
A simple example in basic, that modifies the item name in the menu bar:

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sub accessCustomMenuItem
    globalscope.BasicLibraries.loadLibrary("Tools")
    key = "org.openoffice.Office.Addons/AddonUI/OfficeMenuBar/"
    menuID = "name.of.custom.menu"    '--> adapt here with the real name of the menu as defined in addons.xcu file
    keyaccess = getRegistryKeyContent(key + menuID, True)
    keyaccess.replaceByName("Title", "NEW NAME")
    keyaccess.commitChanges()
    keyaccess.dispose()
    ' Update the current frame if needed.
    ' You may also need to update other active frames 
    wait 100  ' this is sometimes needed before update, don't know why
    layouter = stardesktop.ActiveFrame.LayoutManager
    layouter.getElement("private:resource/menubar/menubar").updateSettings()
end sub

[tested on LibreOffice only]

Regards.

[JulianR]

Looks promising, but I will need to dig deeper into that keyaccess object.Thanks.