Announce: tcluno - tcl interface for OpenOffice.org on Linux
Wolfgang Großer
tcluno - the tcl interface for OpenOffice.org.
It can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcluno
It provides access from Tcl to the OpenOffice.org UNO interface and the
OpenOffice UNO urp protocol. Tcl only packages itcluno, unospection based
on tcluno and tclurtp packages for (hopefully) easy access to
OpenOffice.org. All the packages are Tcl only. So these packages should run
at least on Linux and Windows. (These operating systems were tested)
When using OpenOffice.org with the tcluno package(s) you have to start
OpenOffice.org with network support:
OOo "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;" "" &
or
soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;" "" &
(see also: http://www.tugm.de/Projekte/TCLUNO/start_ooo.html.en )
tclurtp - a TCL only package to access OpenOffice.org API functions and
Interfaes using the existing OpenOffice.org urp socket interface. The
tclurtp procedures are mostly low level routines which should be used
together with the tcluno and itcluno packages also available here. The
tcluno package is on top of tclurtp and is the "middle" ware, on top of
tcluno there are Itcl classes (the itcluno package) which should be used by
applications to access open office documents on a "higher" level.
tcluno - The tcluno package provides access to the OpenOffice.org API
interfaces and methods based on the package tclurtp using TCL
itcluno - This package contains Itcl uno classes for accessing
OpenOffice.org documents from TCL. For use of this package it is necessary
to have the TCL packages tcluno ("middle" ware) and tclurtp (lowlevel
access routines) installed in directories included in the auto_path
variable! itcluno is a package which makes it really easy to deal with
OpenOffice.org. itcluno has got a lot of new methods compared to version
0.1 within all classes. the documentation for itcluno can be found in the
docs directory of the appropriate file. All examples shown in the
documentation can be found in the demos directory. A tcl script for
starting the examples named RunExamples.tcl is also included.
unospection - This package provides access to OpenOffice.org running as a
server process with a GUI. You can drive OpenOffice.org with this Tool
using introspection for getting info about the provided interfaces, methods
and properties and you can directly call the methods and set and get
properties interactively and see what happens in the OpenOffice.org
documents you are working on. If you want to have documentation for the
methods you have to download docs.zip in the tclunodocs package and save it
in the directory where you start unospection. If you are familiar with the
methods and properties you don't need this large file. For running this
package you also need the tclurtp and tcluno package installed!
For german users: there will be an article in the german linux-magazin
03/2006 (Thanks to Carsten Zerbst)