Issue 42240

np->tbe

Have you seen this behaviour before?

TBE->GRVAL:
I cannot reproduce this task on OOo 1.1.3. Can you please provide a bug doc
with the whole macro in order to reproduce this task.
In what way do you run the macro? From the Macro dialog or via an event
binding?

Nevertheless I assume that you don't load the corresponding dialog library.
Please see the macro below, this should work.


Sub Main()

	Dim oLibContainer As Object
	Dim oLib As Object
	Dim oInputStreamProvider As Object
	Dim oDialog As Object
		
	Const sLibName = "Standard"
	Const sDialogName = "Dialog1"

	REM get library and input stream provider
	oLibContainer = DialogLibraries	
	oLibContainer.loadLibrary( sLibName )
	oLib = oLibContainer.getByName( sLibName )	
	oInputStreamProvider = oLib.getByName( sDialogName )
	
	REM create dialog control
	oDialog = CreateUnoDialog( oInputStreamProvider )
											
	REM show the dialog
	oDialog.execute()
			
End Sub

Ok, that code works, but it creates a new problem. I can't access the controls
on the dialog.

I discovered that my code works if it isn't called from an event. However, if I
call it from an event, I get a null dialog container.

REM getCriteria
REM
REM get criteria for report from user
REM prefill with values from current report if present
REM
Sub getCriteria()
  ' declare objects to reference our date controls from our dialog box
  Dim asOfDateControl as object		
  
  dim oLib as object
  dim dlgDef as  object
  
  oLib = DialogLibraries.getByName("Standard")
  dlgDef = oLib.getByName("CriteriaDialog")
  
  if IsNull(dlgDef) then
  	msgbox "Dialog not defined."
  end if
  
  oDlg = CreateUnoDialog(dlgDef)	
  
  asOfDateControl = oDlg.getControl("asOfDate")
  
  asOfDateControl.setDate(CDateToISO(now()))	' set From Date control 
      
  oDlg.execute()		' show dialog box
End Sub 

So I get "Dialog not defined." when calling from a button. The macro and the
dialog are both in the documents standard library, so they should be loaded.

TBE->GRVAL: You're right. Only the Standard MODULE library (application + 
document Basic) is loaded by default. The Standard DIALOG library is NOT
loaded by default. Therefore you need the loadLibrary call in your macros
in order to work.

I will forward this task to AB for further evaluation. Probably it makes sense
to load also the Standard dialog library by default.

Created attachment 22575 [details]
i42240.sxw (contains two buttons with an event binding to Standard-Module1-Main)

TBE->AB: Please evaluate.

Ah yes, loading the standard dialog library works.

set to NEW,
oooqa can do nothing about this

Accepted as OOo 2.01 enhancement, not as defect as it's not specified that the
Standard dialog library has to be preloaded. But it would make sense to preload
the Standard dialog library because the Basic IDE does it and so forgetting to
load the library in the Basic code is not easy to detect.

Per agreement with MBA and AB i set this task to OOo Later.

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".