[ILUG] OpenOffice.org Basic macro query

[CP Hennessy]

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 21:29:35 Conor Daly wrote:
> I've recorded a little macro in Openoffice.org 2.04 but I want to finish
> it with a call to festival.  Is there an equivalent to the c 'system()'
> function?  All I want is something like:
>
> system("festival --tts /tmp/text")

It is possible using the interface :
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/system/XSystemShellExecute.html
of the service :
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/system/SystemShellExecute.html

Obviously you will have to change the default security settings for this to 
work.

CPH