:Python (pyuno) "Hello World" Addon for OpenOffice
Python (pyuno) "Hello World" Addon for OpenOffice Feb 7, 2009, 01 :34 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6301 reads) (Other stories by Mitch Frazier)
"As is the law, our first program when doing something new has to be a "Hello World" program. The idea here is to add an option to the OpenOffice menu which will insert "Hello World" into the first cell of a spreadsheet. As a starting point for this example I used an example from the pyuno udk site (the second "Hello World" example on the page).
"The example there does essentially the same thing as the example here except there it inserts "Hello World" into a Writer (Word Processor) document rather than a spreadsheet. One would assume that it would be a fairly easy conversion, and once I knew the answer it was. The hard part was figuring out how to get the "spreadsheet" object and then how to get a "cell" object from it. And it wasn't so much hard as just time consuming trying to find the right information in the documentation.
"After a few hours of searching and a few false starts I came across the two needed interfaces: XSpreadsheetDocument and XCell. These gave me what I needed to modify the example to work with a spreadsheet:"
