July 29th, 2005
| Filed under Misc
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The following is the minimal code to set the current page of an Impress document. This is actually considerably easier to do from Python than Java ...
PYTHON:
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import uno
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# Get the uno component context from the PyUNO runtime
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localContext = uno.getComponentContext()
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# Create the UnoUrlResolver
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resolver = localContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
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"com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", localContext )
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# Connect to the running office
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ctx = resolver.resolve(
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"uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext" )
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smgr = ctx.ServiceManager
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# Get the central desktop object
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desktop = smgr.createInstanceWithContext(
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"com.sun.star.frame.Desktop",ctx)
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# Pull the current document, we asssume this is an Impress doc
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doc = desktop.getCurrentComponent()
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frame = desktop.getCurrentFrame()
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ctrl = frame.getController() # In impress this implements XDrawView
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pages = doc.getDrawPages() # Page list of the current impress document
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# Set to some page ...
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target = pages.getByIndex(8)
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ctrl.setCurrentPage(target)
July 28th, 2005
| Filed under Jabber
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To my moderate suprise I've been voted in as a Jabber Software Foundation member. I received a 75% yes vote, which isn't too bad. Apparently rantlets are acceptable application material. I'd better write that JEP then ...
July 20th, 2005
| Filed under Misc
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Havoc Pennington has just posted about '☠' (pronounced 'Yarr') on his blog. It's basically realtime chat in a blog context, with the conversations forming part of the document. One interesting feature is the ability for a chat message to contain an image for illustration of ideas. The manifesto is
here.
July 19th, 2005
| Filed under Lisp
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While hacking on erlang and python the following occurs to me:
On being introduced to Lisp people always complain about all the parentheses. But the parentheses are always there; it's just that in other languages you're expected to mentally insert them yourself.
July 19th, 2005
| Filed under Lisp
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Had Monday off as I needed to do some shopping and have lunch with a friend who's off to work in Madrid. But it's back to work now, but first some google-juice ...
Dog-training in Sydney (Leichhardt); It's a volunteer organisation so is cheap. Ph: 02-9797-0508.
More Erlang/Lisp fusion work, this time based around Scheme: Termite.
July 12th, 2005
| Filed under Lisp
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I'm currently mirroring Rainer Joswig's live video tutorial on developing DSLs in lisp. DSLs are something of a hot topic at the moment and Martin Fowler weighed-in recently, and Rainer produced a lisp-specific example and accompanying video. It's an interesting example of how lisp development can differ from other languages through the use of interaction with the lisp runtime.
