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BASIC Guide

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• The Language of OpenOffice.org Basic

• Overview of a Basic Program
• Working With Variables
• Strings
• Numbers
• Boolean Values
• Date and Time
• Arrays
• Scope and Life Span of Variables
• Constants
• Operators
• Branching
• Loops
• Procedures and Functions
• Error Handling
• Other Instructions

• Runtime Library

• Conversion Functions
• Strings
• Date and Time
• Files and Directories
• Message and Input Boxes
• Other Functions

• Introduction to the API

• Universal Network Objects (UNO)
• Properties and Methods
• Modules, Services and Interfaces
• Tools for Working with UNO
• Overview of Central Interfaces

• Working with Documents

• The StarDesktop
• Styles and Templates

• Text Documents

• The Structure of Text Documents
• Editing Text Documents
• More than Just Text

• Spreadsheet Documents

• The Structure of Spreadsheets
  • Rows and Columns
  • Cells and Ranges
  • Formatting Spreadsheet Documents
• Editing Spreadsheet Documents

• Drawings and Presentations

• The Structure of Drawings
• Editing Drawing Objects
• Presentations

• Charts (Diagrams)

• Using Charts in Spreadsheets
• The Structure of Charts
• Chart Types

• Databases

• SQL: a Query Language
• Types of Database Access
• Data Sources
• Database Access

• Dialogs

• Working With Dialogs
• Properties
• Events
• Dialog Control Elements

• Forms

• Working With Forms
• Control Element Forms
• Database Forms

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OpenOffice.org presentations are based on drawing documents. Each page in the presentation is a slide. You can access slides in the same way as a standard drawing is accessed through the DrawPages list of the document object. The com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument service, responsible for presentation documents, also provides the complete com.sun.star.drawing.DrawingDocument service.

Working With Presentations

In addition to the drawing functions that are provided by the Presentation property, the presentation document has a presentation object that provides access to the main properties and control mechanisms for presentations. For example, this object provides a start method that can start presentations.

Dim Doc As Object
Dim Presentation As Object

Doc = ThisComponent
Presentation = Doc.Presentation
Presentation.start()

The code used in this example creates a Doc object that references the current presentation document and establishes the associated presentation object. The start() method of the object is used to start the example and run the screen presentation.

The following methods are provided as presentation objects:

start

starts the presentation

end

ends the presentation

rehearseTimings

starts the presentation from the beginning and establishes its runtime

The following properties are also available:

AllowAnimations (Boolean)

runs animations in the presentation

CustomShow (String)

allows you to specify the name of the presentation so that you can reference the name in the presentation

FirstPage (String)

name of slide that you want to start the presentation with

IsAlwaysOnTop (Boolean)

always displays the presentation window as the first window on the screen

IsAutomatic (Boolean)

automatically runs through the presentation

IsEndless (Boolean)

restarts the presentation from the beginning once it ends

IsFullScreen (Boolean)

automatically starts the presentation in full screen mode

IsMouseVisible (Boolean)

displays the mouse during the presentation

Pause (long)

the amount of time that a blank screen is displayed at the end of the presentation

StartWithNavigator (Boolean)

displays the navigator window when the presentation starts

UsePn (Boolean)

displays the pointer during the presentation

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