[Gambas-user] Connect to and control LibreOffice

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 22/08/2017 à 12:52, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
> Am 22.08.2017 12:41, schrieb Benoît Minisini via Gambas-user:
>> Le 22/08/2017 à 05:47, Doug Hutcheson a écrit :
>>> On the page http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/intro?nh is this
>>> information:
>>>
>>> Gambas is build on top of many free softwares, and could not exist
>>> without them.
>>> So I would like to thank every people involved in the following
>>> projects:
>>>   * Linux
>>>   * KDE
>>>   * GCC and all of the GNU tools, of course.
>>>   * The Qt toolkit.
>>>   * The GIMP and its toolkit GTK+.
>>>   * Libre Office.
>>>   * The MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite database management systems.
>>>   * And any other libraries used by Gambas.
>>>
>>> The reference to LibreOffice is interesting. Does it mean there are
>>> built-in 'hooks' into LibreOffice? I suppose that would be too much to
>>> hope for, but perhaps there is a 'bridge' between LO and Gambas? I need
>>> to update several LO spreadsheets in tandem with creating and
>>> maintaining a new PostgreSQL database storing the same data but in
>>> properly normalised tables.I cannot change the structure of the
>>> existing spreadsheets, so just uncompressing them and running search-
>>> and-replace processes is not quite good enough.
>>>
>>> Any pointers to help in this would be welcome, even if only to say I am
>>> wasting my time.    "8-)
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Doug
>>
>> No, it just means that I used LibreOffice to write some presentation
>> files. :-)
>>
>> When I want to create a LibreOffice file, I do the following:
>>
>> - I create a "template" LibreOffice file that has the look of the final
>> file, and where the data I want to put is replaced by string patterns.
>>
>> - I unzip the LibreOffice file.
>>
>> - I modify the content.xml file by replacing the string patterns with
>> the final data.
>>
>> - I zip the result, and I get my final LibreOffice file.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> 
> Clever :) I will print this and pin it to the wall... Might even be a 
> way to cope with Scribus.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rolf
> 

Of course it is actually more complex: the structure of the content.xml 
file is sometimes difficult to manage, especially with LibreOffice 
sheets. Using the XML components may help.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini