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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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2009-04-29 at 02:19:31ID24364739
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Delphi OpenOffice OLE

Topic

Delphi Programming

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Answers

 

by: louislietaerPosted on 2009-04-29 at 03:03:20ID: 24258713

As Excel is not install on your client PC you will not be able to run ole on excel.

here is a download link for openoffice sdk. Install it there are some delphi examples.

http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.0/sdk.html

 

by: i7madPosted on 2009-04-29 at 03:05:41ID: 24258725

louislietaer

 I Know that, I just want:

1- Check if Excel Installed on current machine.
2- if not, Check if OpenOffice Calc installed.
3- deal with OpenOffice Calc as code attached in my first post here.

 

by: louislietaerPosted on 2009-04-29 at 03:20:33ID: 24258792

For point 1.

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;
                                              
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by: i7madPosted on 2009-04-29 at 03:24:56ID: 24258819

louislietaer:


[DCC Error] MainMenu.pas(1250): E2003 Undeclared identifier: 'TCLSID'

 

by: louislietaerPosted on 2009-04-29 at 04:03:25ID: 24259025

uses
  ComObj, ActiveX; // here an other example uses clause what missing in the first one

function IsObjectActive(ClassName: string): Boolean;
var
  ClassID: TCLSID;
  Unknown: IUnknown;
begin
  try
    ClassID := ProgIDToClassID(ClassName);
    Result  := GetActiveObject(ClassID, nil, Unknown) = S_OK;
  except
    // raise;
    Result := False;
  end;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if IsObjectActive('Word.Application') then ShowMessage('Word is running !');
  if IsObjectActive('Excel.Application') then ShowMessage('Excel is running !');
  if IsObjectActive('Outlook.Application') then ShowMessage('Outlook is running !');
  if IsObjectActive('Access.Application') then ShowMessage('Access is running !');
  if IsObjectActive('Powerpoint.Application') then ShowMessage('Powerpoint is running !');
end;

 

by: i7madPosted on 2009-04-29 at 04:54:02ID: 24259344

Thanks it worked for me as for Excel.

 Now the important part, is how to OLE over OpenOffice Calc, like what I did in Excel?

 

by: louislietaerPosted on 2009-04-29 at 07:15:58ID: 24260711

It is a bit different.

Do you want I write the code for you ?

 

by: i7madPosted on 2009-04-29 at 07:18:02ID: 24260733

louislietaer

  I will be very thankfull for you if you write the code for me

same as above code, but works for OpenOffice Calc.

Thanks in Advance

 

by: i7madPosted on 2009-05-07 at 01:43:37ID: 24323435

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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