[Solved] Insert pagebreak

[Peter18]

A friendly hello to anybody,

I want to Insert at the end of a document a pagebreak. I found a method named setPageBreak but it did not work. It looks like a part of a package for a specific programming language. The "StarOffice Programmer’s Tutorial" told me a pagebreak is a property of a paragraph. So I tried to get the properties. Any testwhith the cursor object I tried failed.

Now I have 3 problems:

• How to get the last paragraph
  How to get the property values of the last paragraph (I want to remove a pagebreak too)
  How to set the breakType with Delphi

The list of breakTypes lists only textual types, but no values I can set from Delphi.

Who can help??

Greetings

Peter

[FJCC]

Enums are listed in order of their numeric values. In Basic, I can set the BreakType to either PAGE_BEFORE or PAGE_AFTER like this:

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oText = ThisComponent.Text
Curs = oText.createTextCursor()
Curs.gotoEnd(false)
'Curs.BreakType = 4 'com.sun.star.style.BreakType.PAGE_BEFORE
Curs.BreakType = 5 'com.sun.star.style.BreakType.PAGE_AFTER

[Peter18]

Hello FJCC,

thank you for your answer. Is "Curs.BreakType = 0" no pagebreak???

Greatings

Peter

[FJCC]

Yes, a value of 0 means None. Youcan see the order here: http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/r ... kType.html

[Peter18]

Hello FJCC,

thank you!I'll try it. I found the page your link is pointing to, but there are no values.

Greetings

Peter

[hanya]

but there are no values.

see: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wik ... alues#enum

I have not seen any enum which has specified value in IDL Reference.
If an IDL defined as follows, autodoc generates "BAR = 10," in the description of BAR element.

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#ifndef __Myenum__
#define __Myenum__

published enum Myenum
{ 
	NONE, 
	FOO, 
	BAR = 10, 
	HOGE, 
};

#endif

[FJCC]

I'm sorry I was unclear. The values are not shown on the linked page, just the order of the enum list. I deduced the value from that order. I got the values for PAGE_BEFORE and PAGE_AFTER just by counting down the list, starting with zero. I read somewhere that enums are always listed in the order of their value. I don't recommend using those values normally, but since I don't know how to get Delphi to recognize the value of com.sun.star.style.BreakType.PAGE_BEFORE, I mentioned this trick.

[Peter18]

Hello,

I'm sorry I could not look at the board for some days.

Hello FJCC,

thank you for your answer. "com.sun.star.style.BreakType.PAGE_BEFORE" did not work, but I declared a const and it worked. I think you are right, the code is the index of enumeration.

Hello hanya,

thank you too for your answer.

I have not seen any enum which has specified value in IDL Reference.

I saw a enumeration with corresponding number, but I don't remember in what context. If I find it again I'll give you the link,

Greetings

Peter

[hanya]

I saw a enumeration with corresponding number, but I don't remember in what context. If I find it again I'll give you the link,

I found an enum having a value specified: http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/r ... Depth.html .

[_savage]

Where do I find these breaks in a given document? I mean, when I iterate over all paragraphs how do I detect that there is such a page break in the text?

[FJCC]

Each paragraph has a BreakType property. If I make a two paragraph document with a page break before the second paragraph and I run

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oText = ThisComponent.Text
oCurs = oText.createTextCursor()
oCurs.gotoStart(False)
print oCurs.BreakType
oCurs.gotoNextParagraph(False)
print oCurs.BreakType

the first print statement returns the value zero and the second one returns four. The numeric values are assigned according to the order here.. The first paragraph in my document has BreakType=NONE and the second has BreakType=PAGE_BEFORE.

[_savage]

Thanks, got it.

Then what's the difference between a SoftPageBreak as a TextPortion type, and a PAGE_BREAK as a BreakType of a paragraph?

[FJCC]

A soft pagebreak is created by Writer itself as text reaches the end of one page and starts on another. The BreakType of a paragraph is inserted manually by the user.

[_savage]

Great, thank you