Get properties of menu items (Like tooltip of button 'save')

[MiguelTeixeira]

Is possible to get informations of menu items trought UNO API? I'd like to get a tooltip/HelpText of menu items trought UNO API, using any language. Some idea? I researched a lot about it and found no results. Someone with a way to indicate?

Best regards,

[robleyd]

Same question asked at https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question ... f-uno-api/

[Zizi64]

Here is Charlie Young's macro example: how to modify the context menu in the Calc application.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=36641&p=168101&hili ... ds#p168101

(In my opinion only the Toolbar icons have tooltips, but the menu items have not. )

[JeJe]

That information should be available in the registry. This gets the label of the Save Command but haven't been able to find the Tooltip in OO.

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GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary("Tools")
c= GetRegistryKeyContent("org.openoffice.Office.UI.GenericCommands") 
msgbox c.getbyname("UserInterface").getbyname("Commands").getbyname(".uno:Save").Label

In LibreOffice you can inspect the registry by going to Tools/Options/Advanced/Open Expert Configuration and search for whatever you want.

[MiguelTeixeira]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your answers!
@JeJe, you know how the stretch:

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"GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary (" Tools ")"

can be reproduced in Python?

Do you know if there is a way to catch/inspecting the "helptext/tooltip popup" event when it is triggered? Can I inspect this event somewhere? This event occurs exactly when the user places the mouse over an item (like the 'save' button).

I just tested this extension:

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Object ... ource_code

But it doesn't seem to serve that purpose.

Best Regards,

[Villeroy]

can be reproduced in Python?

This is the Basic routine from the Tools library which can be translated to Python:

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Function GetRegistryKeyContent(sKeyName as string, Optional bforUpdate as Boolean)
Dim oConfigProvider as Object
Dim aNodePath(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
	oConfigProvider = createUnoService("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationProvider")
	aNodePath(0).Name = "nodepath"
	aNodePath(0).Value = sKeyName
	If IsMissing(bForUpdate) Then
		GetRegistryKeyContent() = oConfigProvider.createInstanceWithArguments("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationAccess", aNodePath())
	Else
		If bForUpdate Then
			GetRegistryKeyContent() = oConfigProvider.createInstanceWithArguments("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationUpdateAccess", aNodePath())
		Else
			GetRegistryKeyContent() = oConfigProvider.createInstanceWithArguments("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationAccess", aNodePath())
		End If
	End If

[JeJe]

What menu are you talking about?

You can create your own popupmenu and set the help text for the menu item.

https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... pMenu.html
https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... XMenu.html

You can examine the visible windows using Accessibility if its a Toolbar item you're interested in

https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... le-ix.html

You can intercept context menus. Don't know about the main menubar.

[MiguelTeixeira]

What menu are you talking about?

I apologize,
I'm talking about the toolbar (the one with the save, open, print, paste buttons ...)

[JeJe]

That might be easier... what are you trying to do?

Edit: Is this a re-run of this thread?

viewtopic.php?t=98949

[MiguelTeixeira]

When the user places the mouse over a button, a popup with help text is displayed. This action is implemented here:

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blo ... p.cxx#L480

I would like to access the 'rHelpText' parameter through the UNO API.
I want to identify when the user places the mouse over some tool (save ... open ... print ...)

[JeJe]

I edited my post to say is this a re-run of this thread just as you posted?

viewtopic.php?t=98949

Anyway... have a look at this thread... you can put a dialog in a toolbar with buttons and probably have a mouseover popup.

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4352

[MiguelTeixeira]

Edit: Is this a re-run of this thread?

Yes. I didn't get any more answers on that topic. I believe I was not being clear enough about what I was looking for.

[JeJe]

Its better for everyone if you 'bump' the thread up... do another post saying you're still looking for the solution. They usually seems to get unsolved if there isn't a solution or no-one here knows the answer.

Controls in a dialog have a mouseinside event so setting a timer when that happens to show your own popup window might be possible... and having a dialog that mimics a toolbar... floating or like that link above put inside a toolbar. All I can think of, don't know the proper answer here.

[Villeroy]

I confirm that the Basic code provided by JeJe

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GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary("Tools")
c= GetRegistryKeyContent("org.openoffice.Office.UI.GenericCommands")
msgbox c.getbyname("UserInterface").getbyname("Commands").getbyname(".uno:Save").Label

reports the tool tip of the save command. Simply use Basic or translate that little snippet to Python.

[JeJe]

Villeroy - I think in LibreOffice that may be the case because the tool tip copies the label with the shortcut added (Ctrl + S).

Its not the case in my OO the tool tip text for Save is "Saves the current document" both in the menu and toolbar button. (In my LO there is no tool tip for the menu Save item)

As the OP is using LibreOffice it will work though - for that button anyway.

[JeJe]

The Expert Configuration in LO is really useful here... it shows all the values for the save command are null except for label.

The correct code in LO is something like:

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GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary("Tools")
c= GetRegistryKeyContent("org.openoffice.Office.UI.GenericCommands")
cc=c.getbyname("UserInterface").getbyname("Commands").getbyname(".uno:Save")
lbl = cc.ToolTipLabel 
if lbl=nullstring then lbl= cc.Label
msgbox lbl

Edit: Or

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GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary("Tools")
cc= GetRegistryKeyContent("/org.openoffice.Office.UI.GenericCommands/UserInterface/Commands/org.openoffice.Office.UI.Commands:LabelType['.uno:Save']")
lbl = cc.ToolTipLabel
if lbl=nullstring then lbl= cc.Label
msgbox lbl