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Andrew Pitonyak's OpenOffice Macro Information

My OpenOffice.org Macro document (updated June 13, 2015 03:19:53 AM UTC) contains many examples. This document is updated frequently so check back frequently. When you find errors, please inform me. Be certain to check out my book OpenOffice.org Macros Explained. You can look at my book page.

Do You Have A More Complete Book?

My Book presents material in an organized fashion designed to teach you the material as you read. My free macro document, on the other hand, is a less organized collection of examples with little explanatory text. If you want to learn and see many of the details with complete working examples, buy my book. If you want a large collection of miscellaneous examples, download my macro document. There is very little overlap between the examples in the book and the examples in my macro document, so you probably want both.

I want to know more about fonts

My macro document is becoming rather large, and I wanted to include information concerning fonts. I opted to create a document (updated July 18, 2013 01:14:29 AM UTC) that inspects fonts. I also have a PDF version of the document. The new document requiers OpenOffice.org version 2.0 or later to run.

The document can create a summary of the supported fonts with an example of how the font looks. A listing of the font descriptor can be written to a Calc document. Tables that show the characters with ASCII values from 32 to 255 for every font in the system.

Feed Back

If you have good examples to include in my document, send me an email. I welcome constructive criticism and examples.

How Do I Obtain Help?

If you have questions about macro programming in OpenOffice I recommend that you:

1. Check existing online resources to see if you can find solutions.
2. Post your questions on the dev mailing list. This allows the entire community to think about and help you solve your problems. There are smart people with a lot of experience who frequent the list and many of them know things that I do not. It is better to obtain a quick, free, existing solution than to wait for me to solve the problem.
3. Although I am flattered by the many requests for help with OpenOffice Macros, I do not have time to handle all of the requests that I receive. For this reason, I prioritize the requests. My paying clients come first.

How I Find On-Line Information

When I want to know about a specific issue, I usually search the Developers Guide, the tutorial, and then finally a google search. If I want to know something about cursors, some posible searches include "Cursor OpenOffice", "XCursor OpenOffice", and "site:api.openoffice.org Cursor". The last search is one of my favorites.

If I already know something about the class, service, or interface that interests me, I can sometimes go directly to the API web site. Assume that I started with a web search and found the web site on word cursors: http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/XWordCursor.html I want to see what else might be related under "com.sun.star.text" so I replace "XWordCursor.html" with "module-ix.html" to see all of the modules for "com.sun.star.text". If you just want to browse, a good place to start is: http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/module-ix.html

My Main Downloads

oome_deutsch_aktuell_20231219.pdf December 19, 2023 08:47:56 PM UTC Schnappschuss von der Website für deutsche Übersetzung vom 19. Dezember 2023.