Hey.
I am using NOA 2.2.2 with Eclipse 3.5.1 and Java 6U17.
Currenty I am writing an Eclipse plugin where I want to include the support to open and edit OpenOffice documents. I read the tutorials and got it to work. However, for some reason I had to manually move the nativeview.dll inside my Eclipse folder.
Basically NOA insited that the nativeview.dll is in &eclipse_dir&/lib/nativeview.dll
I tried setting the build path as well as the plugin classpaths, nothing worked. After exporting my plugin, the nativeview.dll is in the folder /lib/NOA inside the plugin.jar.
I then tried the hint from the wiki to use System.setProperty(IOfficeApplication.NOA_NATIVE_LIB_PATH,"/your/lib/folder";
but then I get an error saying that I need to provide an absolute path.
I am fairly sure I am just not seeing the obvious here, but any help would be welcome.

Thanks in advance

Hi,

you need to do the following in your plugin's start method:

public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
super.start(context);
System.setProperty(IOfficeApplication.NOA_NATIVE_LIB_PATH,getLibrariesLocation());
}

public String getLibrariesLocation() {
if(librariesLocation == null) {
try {
URL url = Platform.getBundle("com.your.bundle.id").getEntry("/");
url  = FileLocator.toFileURL(url);
String bundleLocation = url.getPath();
File file = new File(bundleLocation);
bundleLocation = file.getAbsolutePath();
bundleLocation = bundleLocation.replace('/', File.separatorChar) + File.separator + "lib";
librariesLocation = bundleLocation;
}
catch(Throwable throwable) {
return null;
}
}
return librariesLocation;
}  

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Markus

It looks like it's the right way, but I must be really tired...
I now get java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library:
G:\workspace\plugin\lib/nativeview.dll
so the last '/' prevents this method from working, but I don't see a way to influence this. It seems like it is automatically set to use the Unix separator.

Ok, it's working now. As I said, it has been a long day yesterday and I set the path wrong...
Thank you Markus for the fast help, I really appreciate it.