This still holds true for the released OOo 2.3.0.

Unfortunately, this breaks programs that employ the "SolidType" property.

On 2.3.0 the following services are reported:

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UNO_SERVICE|com.sun.star.chart.Diagram+
            com.sun.star.xml.UserDefinedAttributeSupplier+       
            com.sun.star.chart.StackableDiagram+
            com.sun.star.chart.ChartAxisXSupplier+
            com.sun.star.chart.ChartAxisYSupplier+
            com.sun.star.chart.ChartAxisZSupplier+
            com.sun.star.chart.ChartTwoAxisXSupplier+
            com.sun.star.chart.ChartTwoAxisYSupplier
           |com.sun.star.comp.chart.Diagram
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"SolidType" is a property defined for "Chart3DBarProperties", cf.
<http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/chart/Chart3DBarProperties.html#SolidType>.

The SDK-example pointing to the usage of "SolidType" can be found here:
<http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/Charts/Charts.xhtml#1_3_3_2_2_3-D_Charts>.

HTH,

---rony

The property "SolidType" is only missing at the diagram. It exists for data
series and data points. The property at the diagram serves as default setting
for the data series, and obviously slipped through.

@bm: thank you for your statement! So can we expect it to be "back" in the next
release to allow the programs that take advantage of it to run again?
(Otherwise, what would be your recommended/"best" workaround?)

As stated before, it works for data series. So, when you want to change a
"box"-chart into a "cone"-chart, you can set the SolidType to CONE for all data
series.

@bm: Obviously I have not been able to express myself sufficiently clear so far,
hence another attempt. There are programs which used to work, but do not so
anymore in 2.3.0. They bomb where the property "SolidType" gets set.

Here's the snippet in ooRexx (which uses the Java-interfaces to OOo, the tilde ~
is the message operator; left of the tilde is the receiving object, right of it
the interface or the method name):


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/*  xTableCharts is a SUBCLASS of XNameAccess ! */
xChart = xTableCharts~getByName("FirstChart")~XTableChart

/* get the embedded Object */
xComponent = xChart~XEmbeddedObjectSupplier~getEmbeddedObject

/* get the Diagram from the ChartDocument */
xDiagram = xComponent~XChartDocument~getDiagram

/* set the properties */
xPropsChart = xDiagram~XPropertySet

xPropsChart~setPropertyValue("Dim3D", box("bool", .true))
xPropsChart~setPropertyValue("Deep",  box("bool", .true))

type=bsf.getConstant("com.sun.star.chart.ChartSolidType", "CYLINDER")
 /* the next statement bombs on 2.3.0, but used to work in earlier versions ! */
xPropsChart~setPropertyValue("SolidType", box("INT", type))
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So this looks like a bug in 2.3.0. The question would be: if this is a bug, will
it get removed in the next version ?

---rony

ronyf: Well, you asked for a work-around, that was what I replied to. Of course
this will be fixed, otherwise I would have closed this issue. The target also
makes clear that it is planned for OOo 2.4.

@bm: Thank you very much (I had hoped so) and also thanks for your workaround,
which I will explore then!

---rony

Fixed in CWS chart15.

Created attachment 50119 [details]
Example document with a little Basic code testing SolidType

Please verify this issue on CWS chart15. For convenience there is also a
document attached where you can run a macro that checks the property.

verified on cws chart15

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