Hi all,

I would like to add a background image to a multi-page text document.
In OpenOffice.org one can use the menu like e.g.: Format>Page>Background, choose Graphic in the dropdown, etc.
Now I would like to do this dynamically, i.e. insert a different background in a certain document depending on its status. Like e.g. a big lightgray "Concept" when it has not been reviewed, and a big lightgray "Final" when it has been reviewed and accepted.
How can I do this with NOA? Can I use a dispatcher on ".uno:FormatMenu" for this? But which propertyValues to set? Any examples or tips?

Thanks in advance for any help ...

Cheers,
Rui

Hi Rui,

this is not implemented yet, but you can do this:

ITextDocument doc = (ITextDocument) documentService.constructNewDocument(IDocument.WRITER,
    DocumentDescriptor.DEFAULT);
XStyleFamiliesSupplier xSupplier = (XStyleFamiliesSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XStyleFamiliesSupplier.class,
    doc.getXTextDocument());
XMultiServiceFactory xMultiServiceFactory = (XMultiServiceFactory) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XMultiServiceFactory.class,
    doc.getXTextDocument());
XNameContainer xBitmapContainer = (XNameContainer) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XNameContainer.class,
    xMultiServiceFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.drawing.BitmapTable"));
String tempId = "tempImageId" + System.currentTimeMillis();
xBitmapContainer.insertByName(tempId, "file:///P:/tests/my_image.gif");
String internalURL = AnyConverter.toString(xBitmapContainer.getByName(tempId));
XNameAccess xNameAccess = xSupplier.getStyleFamilies();
XNameContainer xPageStyleCollection = (XNameContainer) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XNameContainer.class,
    xNameAccess.getByName("PageStyles"));
XPropertySet xPropertySet = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPropertySet.class,
    xPageStyleCollection.getByName("Standard"));
xPropertySet.setPropertyValue("BackGraphicURL", internalURL);
xPropertySet.setPropertyValue("BackGraphicLocation", GraphicLocation.LEFT_TOP);

Regards,

Markus

Thank you Markus, I'm going to try this, and will let you know of my results.

Best regards,
Rui

Hi Markus,

I tried to get your suggestion to run, but at no success!Maybe you can still help me:
My situation is as follows:
- I'm opening a odt document in an ag.ion.bion.workbench.office.editor.ui.editors.OfficeEditor through
page.openEditor( editorInput, ..., true)
editorInput is a FileStoreEditorInput.
- I added a 'partOpened' listener: page.addPartListener(..) to postWindowCreate() in
ApplicationWorkbenchWindowAdvisor:
...
public void partOpened(IWorkbenchPart part) {
if (part instanceof AbstractOfficeEditor) {
final OfficeEditor editor = (OfficeEditor) part;
final IDocument document = editor.getDocument();
addDocumentListener(document(new IDocumentListener() {
public void onLoadDone(IDocumentEvent documentEvent) {
try {
insertBackground(document);
}
catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
catch (java.lang.Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}));
document.fireDocumentEvent(IDocument.EVENT_ON_LOAD_DONE);
...
- the method insertBackground() contains more or less your code-snippet as in your previous post, where I
used ITextDocument doc = (ITextDocument) document, instead of your (ITextDocument)
documentService.construct ... in your example.

When I run (debug) the code I can see that I get into the insertBackground() method, there is a document, but the xMultiServiceFactory and xSupplier that the UnoRuntime.queryInterface returns are both null.

Do you have any hints on where I could have gone wrong?

Thank you, and best regards.
Rui
PS I'm going to dive in the openoffice API, but it migth be just a small omission ...

Hi Markus,

I just wanted to point out that your code-snippet works well if I depart from an IOfficeApplication and construct a ITextDocument using the IOfficeApplication#getDocumentService().
So, apparently, my problem is: not being able to get valid results from UnoRuntime when it is embedded in an RCP application.

Cheers,
Rui

Hi Markus,

This is just to tell you that I got the background-image inserted using your suggestion above.
The fact that I got NPE's in the beginning was due to a setup error that caused UNORuntime not to be found.
I updated the classpaths, etc. and almost everything works fine now. I still have to figure out how to add this to every page of a document, but I am confident I will succeed in this too.
Thanks again for your help.

Cheers,
Rui