SFDialogs.DialogControl service

The DialogControl service manages the controls belonging to a dialog defined with the Basic Dialog Editor. Each instance of the current service represents a single control within a dialog box. API;awt.XControl API;awt.XControlModel The focus is set on getting and setting the values displayed by the controls of the dialog box. Formatting is accessible via the XControlModel and XControlView properties. Note that the unique DialogControl.Value property content varies according to the control type. A special attention is given to controls of type tree control. It is easy to populate a tree, either branch by branch, or with a set of branches at once. Populating a tree control can be performed statically or dynamically.

The SFDialogs.DialogControl service is closely related to the SFDialogs.Dialog service.

Service invocation

The DialogControl service is invoked from an existing Dialog service instance through its Controls() method. The dialog must be initiated with the SFDialogs.Dialog service. Dim myDialog As Object, myControl As Object Set myDialog = CreateScriptService("SFDialogs.Dialog", "GlobalScope", myLibrary, DialogName) Set myControl = myDialog.Controls("myTextBox") myControl.Value = "Dialog started at " & Now() myDialog.Execute() ' ... process the controls actual values myDialog.Terminate() from time import localtime, strftime dlg = CreateScriptService('SFDialogs.Dialog', 'GlobalScope', lib_name, dlg_name) text = dlg.Controls('myTextBox') text.Value = "Dialog started at " + strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", localtime()) dlg.Execute() # ... process the controls actual values dlg.Terminate() Alternatively a control instance can be retrieved via the SFDialogs.DialogEvent service, providing the dialog was initiated with the Dialog service. DialogEvent returns the SFDialogs.DialogControl class instance that triggered the event. Sub SomeEvent(ByRef poEvent As Object) Dim oControl As Object Set oControl = CreateScriptService("SFDialogs.DialogEvent", poEvent) ' ... End Sub def some_event(event: uno): ctrl = CreateScriptService('SFDialogs.DialogEvent', event) # ... Note that in previous examples, the prefix "SFDialogs." may be omitted.

Control types

The DialogControl service is available for these control types: Button CheckBox ComboBox CurrencyField DateField FileControl FixedLine FixedText FormattedField GroupBox ImageControl ListBox NumericField PatternField ProgressBar RadioButton ScrollBar TextField TimeField TreeControl

Properties

Name ReadOnly Type Applicable to Description Cancel No Boolean Button Specifies if a command button has or not the behaviour of a Cancel button. Caption No String Button, CheckBox, FixedLine, FixedText, GroupBox, RadioButton Specifies the text associated with the control. ControlType Yes String All One of the types listed above. CurrentNode No UNO
object TreeControl The currently upmost node selected in the tree control. Refer to XmutableTreeNode in Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for detailed information.

Default No Boolean Button Specifies whether a command button is the default (OK) button. Enabled No Boolean All Specifies if the control is accessible with the cursor. Format No String DateField, TimeField, FormattedField (read-only) Specifies the format used to display dates and times. It must be one these strings: For dates: "Standard (short)", "Standard (short YY)", "Standard (short YYYY)", "Standard (long)", "DD/MM/YY", "MM/DD/YY", "YY/MM/DD", "DD/MM/YYYY", "MM/DD/YYYY" , "YYYY/MM/DD", "YY-MM-DD", "YYYY-MM-DD". For times: "24h short", "24h long", "12h short", "12h long". ListCount Yes Long ComboBox, ListBox Specifies the number of rows in a list box or a combo box. ListIndex No Long ComboBox, ListBox Specifies which item is selected in a list box or combo box. Locked No Boolean ComboBox, CurrencyField, DateField, FileControl, FormattedField, ListBox, NumericField, PatternField, TextField, TimeField Specifies if the control is read-only. MultiSelect No Boolean ListBox Specifies whether a user can make multiple selections in a listbox. Name Yes String All The name of the control. Page No Integer All A dialog may have several pages that can be traversed by the user step by step. The Page property of the Dialog object defines which page of the dialog is active. The Page property of a control defines the page of the dialog on which the control is visible. Parent Yes Dialog
service All The parent SFDialogs.Dialog class object instance. Picture No String Button, ImageControl Specifies the file name containing a bitmap or other type of graphic to be displayed on the specified control. The filename must comply with the FileNaming attribute of the ScriptForge.FileSystem service. RootNode Yes UNO
object TreeControl An object representing the lowest root node (usually there is only one such root node). Refer to XmutableTreeNode in Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for detailed information.

RowSource No Array of strings ComboBox, ListBox Specifies the data contained in a combobox or a listbox. Text Yes String ComboBox, FileControl, FormattedField, PatternField, TextField Gives access to the text being displayed by the control. TipText No String All Specifies the text that appears as a tooltip when you hold the mouse pointer over the control. TripleState No Boolean CheckBox Specifies if the checkbox control may appear dimmed (grayed) or not. Value No Variant Refer to Value property Visible No Boolean All Specifies if the control is hidden or visible. XControlModel Yes UNO
object All The UNO object representing the control model. Refer to XControlModel and UnoControlDialogModel in Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for detailed information. XControlView Yes UNO
object All The UNO object representing the control view. Refer to XControl and UnoControlDialog in Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for detailed information. XTreeDataModel Yes UNO
object TreeControl The UNO object representing the tree control data model. Refer to XMutableTreeDataModel in Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for detailed information.

The Value property

Control type Type Description Button Boolean For toggle buttons only CheckBox Boolean or Integer 0, False: not checked
1, True: checked
2: grayed, don't know ComboBox String The selected value. The ListIndex property is an alternate option. CurrencyField Numeric DateField Date FileControl String A file name formatted in accordance with the FileNaming property of the ScriptForge.FileSystem service FormattedField String or Numeric ListBox String or array of strings The selected row(s) as a scalar or as an array depending on the MultiSelect attribute NumericField Numeric PatternField String ProgressBar Numeric Must be within the predefined bounds RadioButton Boolean Each button has its own name. They are linked together if their TAB positions are contiguous. If a radiobutton is set to True, the other related buttons are automatically set to False ScrollBar Numeric Must be within the predefined bounds TextField String The text appearing in the field TimeField Date

Event properties

Returns a URI string with the reference to the script triggered by the event. Read its specification in the scripting framework URI specification.

Name ReadOnly Description as labeled in the Basic IDE OnActionPerformed Yes Execute action OnAdjustmentValueChanged Yes While adjusting OnFocusGained Yes When receiving focus OnFocusLost Yes When losing focus OnItemStateChanged Yes Item status changed OnKeyPressed Yes Key pressed OnKeyReleased Yes Key released OnMouseDragged Yes Mouse moved while key presses OnMouseEntered Yes Mouse inside OnMouseExited Yes Mouse outside OnMouseMoved Yes Mouse moved OnMousePressed Yes Mouse button pressed OnMouseReleased Yes Mouse button released OnNodeExpanded No (Not in Basic IDE) when the expansion button is pressed on a node in a tree control OnNodeSelected No (Not in Basic IDE) when a node in a tree control is selected OnTextChanged Yes Text modified

Methods

List of Methods in the DialogControl Service AddSubNode
AddSubTree CreateRoot
FindNode SetFocus
WriteLine

AddSubNode -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DialogControl service;AddSubNode

AddSubNode

Create and return a new node of the tree control as a UNO object subordinate to a parent node. Refer to XMutableTreeNode in Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for detailed information.

This method may be called before displaying the dialog box to build the initial tree. It may also be called from a dialog or control event - using the OnNodeExpanded event - to complete the tree dynamically.

svc.AddSubNode(parentnode: uno, displayvalue: str, opt datavalue: any): uno

parentnode: A node UNO object, of type com.sun.star.awt.tree.XMutableTreeNode. displayvalue: The text appearing in the tree control box.

datavalue: Any value associated with the new node. datavalue may be a string, a number or a date. Omit the argument when not applicable.

%PRODUCTNAME Basic and Python examples pick up current document's myDialog dialog from Standard library. Dim oDlg As Object, myTree As Object, myNode As Object, theRoot As Object Set oDlg = CreateScriptService("Dialog",,, "myDialog") Set myTree = oDlg.Controls("myTreeControl") Set theRoot = myTree.CreateRoot("Tree top") Set myNode = myTree.AddSubNode(theRoot, "A branch ...") dlg = CreateScriptService('SFDialogs.Dialog', None, None, 'myDialog') tree = dlg.Controls('myTreeControl') root = tree.CreateRoot('Tree top') node = tree.AddSubNode(root, 'A branch ...')

AddSubTree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DialogControl service;AddSubTree

AddSubTree

Return True when a subtree, subordinate to a parent node, could be inserted successfully in a tree control. If the parent node had already child nodes before calling this method, the child nodes are erased.

svc.AddSubTree(parentnode: uno, flattree: any, opt withdatavalue: bool): bool

parentnode: A node UNO object, of type com.sun.star.awt.tree.XMutableTreeNode. flattree: a two dimension array sorted on the columns containing the display values. Such an array can be issued by the GetRows method applied on the SFDatabases.Database service. When an array item containing the text to be displayed is Empty or Null, no new subnode is created and the remainder of the row is skipped. Flat tree >>>> Resulting subtree A1 B1 C1 |__ A1 A1 B1 C2 |__ B1 A1 B2 C3 |__ C1 A2 B3 C4 |__ C2 A2 B3 C5 |__ B2 A3 B4 C6 |__ C3 |__ A2 |__ B3 |__ C4 |__ C5 |__ A3 |__ B4 |__ C6 withdatavalue: When False default value is used, every column of flattree contains the text to be displayed in the tree control. When True, the texts to be displayed (displayvalue) are in columns 0, 2, 4, ... while the data values (datavalue) are in columns 1, 3, 5, ...

Dim myTree As Object, theRoot As Object, oDb As Object, vData As Variant Set myTree = myDialog.Controls("myTreeControl") Set theRoot = myTree.CreateRoot("By product category") Set oDb = CreateScriptService("SFDatabases.Database", "/home/.../mydatabase.odb") vData = oDb.GetRows("SELECT [Category].[Name], [Category].[ID], [Product].[Name], [Product].[ID] " _ & "FROM [Category], [Product] WHERE [Product].[CategoryID] = [Category].[ID] " _ & "ORDER BY [Category].[Name], [Product].[Name]") myTree.AddSubTree(theRoot, vData, WithDataValue := True) SQL_STMT = "SELECT [Category].[Name], [Category].[ID], [Product].[Name], [Product].[ID] \ FROM [Category], [Product] WHERE [Product].[CategoryID] = [Category].[ID] \ ORDER BY [Category].[Name], [Product].[Name]" tree = dlg.Controls('myTreeControl') root = tree.CreateRoot('By Product category') db = CreateScriptService('SFDatabases.Database', '/home/.../mydatabase.odb') sub_tree = db.GetRows(SQL_STMT) tree.AddSubTree(root, sub_tree, withdatavalue=True)

CreateRoot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DialogControl service;CreateRoot

CreateRoot

Returns a new root node of the tree control, as a node UNO object of type com.sun.star.awt.tree.XMutableTreeNode. The new tree root is inserted below pre-existing root nodes. This method may be called before displaying the dialog box to build the initial tree. It may also be called from a dialog or control event to complete the tree dynamically.

svc.CreateRoot(displayvalue: str, opt datavalue: any): uno

displayvalue: The text appearing in the tree control box.

Dim myTree As Object, myNode As Object Set myTree = myDialog.Controls("myTreeControl") Set myNode = myTree.CreateRoot("Tree starts here ...") tree = dlg.Controls('myTreeControl') node = tree.CreateRoot('Tree starts here ...')

FindNode -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DialogControl service;FindNode

FindNode

Traverses the tree and finds recursively, starting from the root, a node meeting some criteria. Either - 1 match is enough - having its display value matching displayvalue pattern or having its data value equal to datavalue. The comparisons may be or not case-sensitive. The first matching occurrence is returned as a node UNO object of type com.sun.star.awt.tree.XMutableTreeNode. When not found, the method returns Nothing, to be tested with the IsNull() builtin function. This method may be called before displaying the dialog box to build the initial tree. It may also be called from a dialog or control event.

svc.FindNode(displayvalue: str = '', opt datavalue: any, casesensitive = False): uno

One argument out of displayvalue or datavalue must be specified. If both present, one match is sufficient to select the node. displayvalue: The pattern to be matched. Refer to SF_String.IsLike() method for the list of possible wildcards. When equal to the zero-length string (default), this display value is not searched for.

casesensitive: Default value is False

Dim myTree As Object, myNode As Object Set myTree = myDialog.Controls("myTreeControl") Set myNode = myTree.FindNode("*Sophie*", CaseSensitive := True) tree = dlg.Controls('myTreeControl') node = FindNode('*Sophie*', casesensitive=True) if node is None: # ...

SetFocus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DialogControl service;SetFocus

SetFocus

Set the focus on the control. Return True if focusing was successful. This method is often called from a dialog or control event.

svc.SetFocus(): bool

Dim oControl As Object Set oDlg = CreateScriptService("SFDialogs.Dialog",,, "myDialog") Set oControl = oDlg.Controls("thisControl") oControl.SetFocus() dlg = CreateScriptService('Dialog', None, None, 'myDialog') ctrl = dlg.Controls('thisControl') ctrl.SetFocus()

WriteLine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DialogControl service;WriteLine

WriteLine

Add a new line at the end of a multiline text field. A newline character will be inserted when appropriate. The method returns True when successful. An error is raised if the actual control is not of the type TextField or is not multiline.

svc.WriteLine(opt line: str): bool oControl.WriteLine([Line As String]) As Boolean

Line: The string to insert. Default is an empty line.

Dim oDlg As Object, oControl As Object Set oDlg = CreateScriptService("SFDialogs.Dialog",,, "myDialog") Set oControl = oDlg.Controls("thisControl") oControl.WriteLine("a new line") dlg = CreateScriptService('SFDialogs.Dialog', None, None, 'myDialog') ctrl = dlg.Controls('thisControl') ctr.WriteLine("a new line")