Bitesize

A ‘Bitesize’ post is a short and easy tutorial and/or documentation focusing on one element.

What is getDesktop () ?

Usually the first statement, when scripting with python to work on a LibreOffice document, would be:desktop = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDesktop() getDesktop() is a method of the object XSCRIPTCONTEXT and returns the Desktop Reference on which our script can interact with. This reference…
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What is XSCRIPTCONTEXT ?

When you program a script within LibreOffice, accessing the XSCRIPTCONTEXT object is the starting point for controlling LibreOffice documents. SCRIPTCONTEXT is an object of class ‘pythonscript.ScriptContext’.This object provides connections with running instances of LibreOffice and has four useful methods:getDocument ()getInvocationContext…
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