[Python] dialog whose content can be selected and copied

[OlivierR]

Hello *,

How to make a dialog whose content can be selected and copied?

I noticed that some part of the LibreOffice About dialog can be selected and copied, but no idea how to do this.

[Villeroy]

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import uno
from com.sun.star.awt.MessageBoxType import MESSAGEBOX, INFOBOX, WARNINGBOX, ERRORBOX, QUERYBOX
from com.sun.star.awt.MessageBoxButtons import BUTTONS_OK, BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL, BUTTONS_ABORT_IGNORE_RETRY, BUTTONS_YES_NO_CANCEL, BUTTONS_YES_NO, BUTTONS_RETRY_CANCEL, DEFAULT_BUTTON_OK, DEFAULT_BUTTON_CANCEL, DEFAULT_BUTTON_RETRY, DEFAULT_BUTTON_YES, DEFAULT_BUTTON_NO, DEFAULT_BUTTON_IGNORE
from com.sun.star.awt.MessageBoxResults import CANCEL, OK, YES, NO, RETRY, IGNORE

def hello_world_msgbox(*args):
    ctx = uno.getComponentContext()
    smgr = ctx.getServiceManager()
    tk = smgr.createInstance('com.sun.star.awt.Toolkit')
    dtp = smgr.createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
    frame = dtp.getCurrentFrame()
    win = frame.getComponentWindow()
    mtyp = INFOBOX
    btn = BUTTONS_YES_NO_CANCEL + DEFAULT_BUTTON_YES
    title = 'HELLO WORLD TEST'
    msg = '"Hello World" from Python via com.sun.star.awt.Toolkit'
    mb = tk.createMessageBox(win,mtyp,btn,title,msg)
    return mb.execute()

Something is wrong with the buttons but the text is selectable.

Edit: If you set mtyp = QUERYBOX, all the buttons appear. INFOBOX implies a simple message with on OK button.

[OlivierR]

Thanks a lot for the answer.

But I realize I should have been more specific. I already have a dialog with a lot of “fixed” texts (this is a conjugation tool), and I’d like to be able to copy and select the content of this dialog.
I saw nothing in the LibreOffice API to make fixed texts selectable.

What it looks like:

Here the code of this dialog (I cut most the irrelevant parts):

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class Conjugueur (unohelper.Base, XActionListener, XTopWindowListener, XJobExecutor):
    def __init__ (self, ctx):
        self.ctx = ctx
        self.xSvMgr = self.ctx.ServiceManager
        self.xContainer = None
        self.xDialog = None
        self.lDropDown = ["être", "avoir", "aller", "vouloir", "pouvoir", "devoir", "acquérir", "connaître", "dire", "faire", \
                          "mettre", "partir", "prendre", "répondre", "savoir", "sentir", "tenir", "vaincre", "venir", "voir", \
                          "appeler", "envoyer", "commencer", "manger", "trouver", "accomplir", "agir", "finir", "haïr", "réussir"]
        self.sWarning = "Verbe non vérifié.\nOptions “pronominal” et “temps composés” désactivées."

    def _addWidget (self, name, wtype, x, y, w, h, **kwargs):
        xWidget = self.xDialog.createInstance('com.sun.star.awt.UnoControl%sModel' % wtype)
        xWidget.Name = name
        xWidget.PositionX = x
        xWidget.PositionY = y
        xWidget.Width = w
        xWidget.Height = h
        for k, w in kwargs.items():
            setattr(xWidget, k, w)
        self.xDialog.insertByName(name, xWidget)
        return xWidget

    def run (self, sArgs=""):
        ## dialog
        self.xDialog = self.xSvMgr.createInstanceWithContext('com.sun.star.awt.UnoControlDialogModel', self.ctx)
        self.xDialog.Width = 300
        self.xDialog.Title = "Grammalecte · Conjugueur"

        ## widgets
        nWidth = (self.xDialog.Width-30) // 2
        nHeight = 10
        nHeightCj = 8
        nTitleColor = 0x660000
        nSubTitleColor = 0x000033

        # grid
        nX1 = 10; nX2 = nX1+145;
        nY0 = 5; nY1 = nY0+17; nY2 = nY1+2; nY3 = nY2+30; nY4 = nY3+46; nY5 = nY4+55; nY6 = nY5+55; nY7 = nY6+55; nY6b = nY6+13; nY7b = nY6b+55

        # input field + button
        self.input = self._addWidget('input', 'ComboBox', nX1, nY0, 85, 14, TextColor = 0x666666, Dropdown = True, LineCount = 30)
        for n, s in enumerate(self.lDropDown):
            self.input.insertItemText(n, s)
        # button
        self.cbutton = self._addWidget('cbutton', 'Button', nX1+90, nY0, 50, 14, Label = "Conjuguer")
        
        ... some other widgets ...

        # group box // indicatif
        gb_infi = self._addWidget('groupbox_infi', 'FixedLine', nX1, nY2, nWidth, 10, Label = "Infinitif", \
                                  FontRelief = 0, TextColor = nTitleColor)
        self.infi = self._addWidget('infi', 'FixedText', nX1, nY2+10, nWidth, nHeight, Label = "")

        ... a lot more of fixed text widgets here ...

        # dialog height
        self.xDialog.Height = 350
        xWindowSize = helpers.getWindowSize()
        self.xDialog.PositionX = int((xWindowSize.Width / 2) - (self.xDialog.Width / 2))
        self.xDialog.PositionY = int((xWindowSize.Height / 2) - (self.xDialog.Height / 2))

        ## container
        self.xContainer = self.xSvMgr.createInstanceWithContext('com.sun.star.awt.UnoControlDialog', self.ctx)
        self.xContainer.setModel(self.xDialog)
        self.xContainer.setVisible(True)  # True for non modal dialog

        self.xContainer.getControl('cbutton').addActionListener(self)
        self.xContainer.getControl('cbutton').setActionCommand('New')

        ... other listeners and action commands here ...

        self.xContainer.addTopWindowListener(self) # listener with XTopWindowListener methods
        #self.xContainer.execute()  # for modal dialog only

        xToolkit = self.xSvMgr.createInstanceWithContext('com.sun.star.awt.ExtToolkit', self.ctx)
        self.xContainer.createPeer(xToolkit, None)

[Villeroy]

Instead of FixedText you could use a read-only EditBox with same color as the background.

[JeJe]

Looking at the LibreOffice about box... the bit that can be selected the "Version: 6.1.5.2 (x64)..." bit... has a right click popup menu that's the same as a textbox and that's what it might be - though there's something very strange about it in that it flickers a lot and there is no caret, so it might not be.

You can use textboxes - or one textbox only positioned over the right fixed text - if you only need to select from one at a time.

Or you could use fixedtext controls (labels) and simulate a selection by changing the background color to blue. If you were happy with the whole fixed text being selected or not selected that would be easy. If you needed character by character selection then you could overlay another fixed text with a blue background for the selected portions.

[OlivierR]

The problem with EditBox is that you can select the content only one by one.

Selection is a request from one of my user, but I assume that copying all relevant data to the clipboard might be good enough.

Thank you for the help.

[Villeroy]

Use a multi-select listbox.

https://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/re ... 0f1e264118

[Villeroy]

or possibly a multi-line edit box?
No, does not support multiple selections of snippets

[JeJe]

If anyone wanted to implement the label idea above you'd use this interface:

https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... ssibleText

There is selectedtext and so on in that interface - but it doesn't apply when its a fixed text/label control

It gives you all the information you need such as the character at the mouse point (on a mouse down/move event) so you can position another label over it for the highlight. You could actually write a textbox control using labels (something i've done in OOBasic) because you have enough information there to do it.

For a multiselection you'd need two extra labels to represent the part of the first and last fixed texts that are selected. The selection of the ones in between can be indicated by setting the background color to the highlight color.