[Solved]Toolbar switching in Base

[gkick]

Hi there,

There are a few macro examples on how to turn toolbars on and off with most of them also turning off the menubar. I would love to show the form design and form controls toolbar in design view but hide them once in data entry mode.
One example I came across is the prepformrunmode macro which requires the Base Tools Extension to work. Where can I find this extension as not listed under extension manager download.
Thanks

[robleyd]

It is an AOO extension - https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/basetools. Quite old, 2010, and may not work with recent versions

[Villeroy]

If you would use MRI, the relevant document property would jump right into your eyes. It is the 3rd property on top.

[Villeroy]

If you would use MRI, the relevant document property would jump right into your eyes. It is the 3rd property on top.

Sorry,,
3rd prop on top is "ApplyFormDesignMode" which is something different (open document in fdm or not).
But with MRI you can find a controller method setFormDesignMode which unfortunately has no counterpart getFormDesignMode so this is write-only. *
The following toggles the property with the help of a global boolean which is preserved between two calls::

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REM  *****  BASIC  *****
Global b as Boolean

Sub toggleFormDesignMode()
	c = ThisComponent.getCurrentController()
	c.setFormDesignMode(b)
	b = Not b
End Sub

You may read the desired state from the state of your toolbars and then set the fdm accordingly.

* but if this is write-only, how does MRI show its current state?

[gkick]

Thanks David, thank you Villeroy, just getting the hang of forms, had a look at report and decided not to use them. Now that MRI looks promising, looks to me its sort of a sophisticated object browser combined with a code generator ?
For now I am not yet familiar with models, methods,interfaces etc. Will need to study a little.