[Solved] Obtain page properties when cursor is on a table

[Kovalevskaya]

Hi everyone, I have a small question. I'm trying to change the page style in a Write document using the Java API.
I can change the page style setting the PageDescName property obtained from a XTextViewCursor but
I can't change the page style, in that way , when the cursor is on a table
¿How can I obtain the page properties when the cursor is placed on a table?

Thanks!

[Zizi64]

I'm trying to change the page style in a Write document using the Java API.

Is there only one page style applied in the document?

Can you upload a sample document with the macro code here?

[Kovalevskaya]

Hi Zizi 64! Thank you for your answer. The document could have more than one page.
And yes I can attach some of the code that I'm writing

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public void changeStyle(short page,OfficeDocument document)
{
    XPageCursor pc;
    XViewCursor cursor;
    pc.jumpToPage(page);
    pc.jumpToStartOfPage();
    //getViewCursor is a method that obtains the View Cursor
    cursor = getViewCursor(document);
    XPropertySet propsc = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPropertySet.class,cursor);  
    //NewStyle is an existing style        
    propsc.setPropertyValue("PageDescName", "NewStyle");
}

I tried also using the page cursor but the result is the same .

Thanks!

[hubert lambert]

Hi,

The PageDescName property "creates a page break before the paragraph it belongs to and assigns the value as the name of the new page style sheet to use" (from the api documentation).
Yet you can't insert a page break to a paragraph inside a text table. In other words, you can't have a text table spanning over two pages that have different styles.

You can test if your cursor is inside a table by checking its "TextTable" property.
To put the view cursor before the table (in basic):

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	doc = thiscomponent
	viewcursor = doc.CurrentController.ViewCursor
	table = viewcursor.TextTable
	viewcursor.gotoRange(table.Anchor, False)

To put the view cursor after the table, append these lines to the previous ones (in basic):

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	T = doc.Text
	textcursor = T.createTextCursor()
	textcursor.gotoRange(viewcursor, False)
	textcursor.gotoNextParagraph(False)
	viewcursor.gotoRange(textcursor, False)

Regards.

[JeJe]

The macro recorder produces this for the dispatch helper (in Basic)... so if it can be translated to Java...

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dim document   as object
dim dispatcher as object
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem get access to the document
document   = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dim args1(1) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
args1(0).Name = "Template"
args1(0).Value = "Right Page"
args1(1).Name = "Family"
args1(1).Value = 8

dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:StyleApply", "", 0, args1())

[Kovalevskaya]

Thank you guys! I'm going to apply some of that methods to change the style , but I understand that there is no a simple way to obtain the XTextViewCursor of the page when the cursor is placed inside the table. However there is another ways to change the page style.

Thank you