[ILUG] OpenOffice.org Basic macro query

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:44:48AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
CP Hennessy thought:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007 09:20:25 Conor Daly wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:37:47AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> >
> > CP Hennessy thought:
> > > 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/XSystemShel
> > >lExecute.html of the service :
> > > http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/system/SystemShell
> > >Execute.html
> > >
> > > Obviously you will have to change the default security settings for this
> > > to work.
> >
> > I'm a total newbie here.  I know none of the syntax and the last time I
> > used MS VBA was about 8 years ago or more.
> >
> > Is it simply a matter of running a system.execute() call?  Or do I have to
> > declare some instance of an object first?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> system = createUnoService("com.sun.star.system.SystemShellExecute")
> 
> should work. Note that I have never used this service myself.

Didn't work.
 
> A very good doc on how to write OOo macros can be found here : 
> http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/AndrewMacro.odt

However, this looks like just what I need to get started.  Thanks.

Conor

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