Delphi, OpenOffice , OLE: Delphi OpenOffice OLE

Delphi, OpenOffice , OLE

Asked by: i7mad

Hello,

My Application supposed to Move a Grid to an Excel sheet. everything works fine with me as for Microsoft Excel. But now I have some customers they don't use Microsoft Excel and they are using OpenOffice Calc instead.

I don't know how to deal with OpenOffice. Actually it is an important option in my application which is moving a Grid Data to an Excel Sheet.

kindly find below my current code for Microsoft Excel, I need it to be converted to work with OpenOffice Calc.

another point, I want to make my Application check if the customer PC has Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc.

var
   ExcelApp : Variant;
   Sheet    : variant;
   I, J     : Integer;
begin
  ExcelApp:= CreateOleObject('Excel.Application');
  ExcelApp.Workbooks.Add;
  Sheet := ExcelApp.Workbooks[1].WorkSheets[1];
  ExcelApp.Rows[1].RowHeight := 16;
  for i := 0 to Grid.Columns.Count-1  do
  begin
    Sheet.Cells[1,i+2] := Grid.Columns[i].Title.Caption;
    Sheet.Columns[i+2].ColumnWidth := Grid.Columns[i].Width div 7;
    Sheet.Columns[i+2].HorizontalAlignment := -4108;
    Sheet.Cells[1,i+2].Font.Bold  := True;
    Sheet.Cells[1,i+2].Font.Size  := 12;
  end;
  Sheet.Columns[1].HorizontalAlignment := -4108;
  Sheet.Cells[1,1].Font.Bold  := True;
  Sheet.Cells[1,1].Font.Size  := 12;
  Sheet.Cells[1,1] := String('#');
 
    for i := 0 to Grid.Columns.Count-1  do
    begin
     Sheet.Cells[j, i+2] := Grid.DataSource.DataSet.Fields[i].AsString;
    end;
    Sheet.Cells[j,1] := IntToStr(J-1);
 
 
  ExcelApp.Visible := True;

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var ClassID: TCLSID; strOLEObject: string; begin strOLEObject := 'Excel.Application'; if (CLSIDFromProgID(PWideChar(WideString(strOLEObject)), ClassID) = S_OK) then begin <application is installed> end else begin <application is NOT installed> end end;

I did it myself.

here we go:

           if isOpenOfficeInstalled then
           begin
              objServiceManager := CreateOleObject('com.sun.star.ServiceManager');
              Stardesktop := objServiceManager.createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop');
              Document := Stardesktop.LoadComponentFromURL('private:factory/scalc','_blank', 0, VarArrayCreate([0, - 1], varVariant));
              Sheet := Document.getSheets.getByName('Sheet1');
              Document.getCurrentController.getFrame.getContainerWindow.setVisible(False);
 
              for i := 0 to Grid.Columns.Count-1  do
              begin
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, 0).CharHeight := 12;
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, 0).CharFontName := 'Arial';
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, 0).CharWeight := 150;
 
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, 0).getColumns.getByIndex(0).SetPropertyValue('Width', Grid.Columns[i].Width * 35);
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, 0).getRows.getByIndex(0).setPropertyValue('Height', 600);
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, 0).getColumns.getByIndex(0).paraAdjust := 3;
 
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, 0).String := Grid.Columns[i].Title.Caption;
              end;
 
              Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, 0).getColumns.getByIndex(0).paraAdjust := 3;
 
              Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, 0).CharHeight := 12;
              Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, 0).CharFontName := 'Arial';
              Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, 0).CharWeight := 150;
 
 
              Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, 0).String := String('#');
              Grid.DataSource.DataSet.First;
              J := 2;              
              Grid.DataSource.DataSet.First;
              While Not Grid.DataSource.DataSet.EOF do
              begin
                for i := 0 to Grid.Columns.Count-1  do
                begin
                 Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, j-1).CharHeight := 11;
                 Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, j-1).CharFontName := 'Arial';
 
                 Sheet.getCellByPosition(i+1, j-1).String := Grid.DataSource.DataSet.Fields[i].AsString;
                end;
 
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, j-1).CharHeight := 11;
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, j-1).CharFontName := 'Arial';
 
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, j-1).String := IntToStr(J-1);
                Sheet.getCellByPosition(0, j-1).getRows.getByIndex(0).setPropertyValue('Height', 600);
                WaitSetProg(Grid.DataSource.DataSet.RecNo, Grid.DataSource.DataSet.RecordCount);
                Grid.DataSource.DataSet.Next;
                J := J + 1;
              end;              
              Document.getCurrentController.getFrame.getContainerWindow.setVisible(True);

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