Re: I have five text frames on the one page, can I move each frame to a new page?

by Chris Fleischmann :: Rate this Message:

I have gotten so far as;

private void moveTextFrames() {
XTextFramesSupplier xTextFramesSupplier = (XTextFramesSupplier)
UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextFramesSupplier.class, xWriterComponent_dest);

XNameAccess xNamedFrames = xTextFramesSupplier.getTextFrames();

XIndexAccess xIndexAccess = (XIndexAccess)
UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XIndexAccess.class, xNamedFrames);

XText xText = xTextDocument_dest.getText();

XTextCursor xTextCursor = xText.createTextCursor();

for (int i = 0; i < xIndexAccess.getCount(); i++) {
try {
Any xImageAny = (Any) xIndexAccess.getByIndex(i);
Object textFrame = xImageAny.getObject();

XTextContent xFrameContent = (XTextContent)textFrame;

XPropertySet xShapeProps = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPropertySet.class, textFrame);

xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("AnchorType", TextContentAnchorType.AT_PAGE);

// Setting the vertical and horizontal position
int height = (i * page_size.Height) + 1000;

xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("VertOrient", new Short(VertOrientation.NONE));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("HoriOrient", new Short(HoriOrientation.NONE));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("HoriOrientPosition", new Integer(1000));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("VertOrientPosition", new Integer(height));

// Set the width and height of the shape.
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("FrameWidthAbsolute", new Integer(frame_size.Width));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("FrameHeightAbsolute", new Integer(frame_size.Height));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("FrameIsAutomaticHeight", new Boolean(false));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("SizeType", new Short((short)1));

xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("LeftBorderDistance", new Integer(200));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("RightBorderDistance", new Integer(200));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("TopBorderDistance", new Integer(200));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("BottomBorderDistance", new Integer(200));

// Insert a paragraph break into the document (not the frame)
xText.insertControlCharacter (xTextCursor, ControlCharacter.PARAGRAPH_BREAK, false);

XPropertySet xCursorProps = (XPropertySet)UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPropertySet.class, xTextCursor);

xCursorProps.setPropertyValue("BreakType", com.sun.star.style.BreakType.PAGE_AFTER);

xText.insertControlCharacter(xTextCursor, ControlCharacter.PARAGRAPH_BREAK, false);

xTextCursor.gotoEnd(false);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());

e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Which allows me to grab the existing textfram. I then attempt to change the verticial position based on the page size, and once moved add a new page to the document and updating the height value for the next frame's translation...

This doesn't seem to work, ie., the textframe(s) do not move to the next page, they don't translate, the seem to move down the page by increments of 1000? Shouldn't the Anchor, AT_PAGE move to the "second", "third" or etc. etc. page, rather than stick to page 1?

thanks for any help you may be able to shed.

Chris Fleischmann wrote:

Hello folks, I have TextFrames, that are created like so (at the beginning of the process):

private XText getTextFrame(XText xText, int x, int y) {
try {
Object textFrame = xWriterFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.text.TextFrame");

XTextContent xTextContentFrame = (XTextContent) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextContent.class, textFrame);

XPropertySet xShapeProps = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPropertySet.class, textFrame);

xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("AnchorType", TextContentAnchorType.AT_PARAGRAPH);

// Setting the vertical and horizontal position
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("VertOrient", new Short(VertOrientation.NONE));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("HoriOrient", new Short(HoriOrientation.NONE));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("VertOrientPosition", new Integer(x));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("HoriOrientPosition", new Integer(y));

// Set the width and height of the shape.
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("FrameWidthAbsolute", new Integer(frame_size.Width));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("FrameHeightAbsolute", new Integer(frame_size.Height));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("FrameIsAutomaticHeight", new Boolean(false));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("SizeType", new Short((short)1));

xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("LeftBorderDistance", new Integer(200));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("RightBorderDistance", new Integer(200));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("TopBorderDistance", new Integer(200));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("BottomBorderDistance", new Integer(200));

xText.insertTextContent(xText.getEnd(), xTextContentFrame, false);

XText xFrameText = (XText) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XText.class, textFrame);

return xFrameText;
} catch (java.lang.Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

return null;
}

This method seems to work, it creates the textframe with a specific size, at a specific x/y location.

I am now attempting to iterate over the "said" textframes like so:

XTextFramesSupplier xTextFramesSupplier = (XTextFramesSupplier)
UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextFramesSupplier.class, xWriterComponent_dest);

XNameAccess xNamedFrames = xTextFramesSupplier.getTextFrames();

String[] textframes = xNamedFrames.getElementNames();

for (int i = 0; i < textframes.length; i++) {
XTextFrame textframe = null;

try {
textframe = (XTextFrame)xNamedFrames.getByName(textframes[i]);

XTextContent xFrameContent = (XTextContent) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextContent.class, textframe);

XPropertySet xShapeProps = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XPropertySet.class, textframe);

Which seems to work, ie., i can iterate over the above "said" frames.... I have tried doing:

xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("AnchorType", TextContentAnchorType.AT_PARAGRAPH);

// Setting the vertical and horizontal position
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("VertOrient", new Short(VertOrientation.NONE));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("HoriOrient", new Short(HoriOrientation.NONE));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("VertOrientPosition", new Integer(1000 + (i * 1000)));
xShapeProps.setPropertyValue("HoriOrientPosition", new Integer(1000));

so as to move the frames slowly but sure down the page....

That doesn't seem to work?

Secondly, is there a way to create a new page between each cycle so that I can move the textframe to the new page with the same, x/y origin?

Thanks in advance for any help you can shed on the issue,

Chris

« Return to Thread: I have five text frames on the one page, can I move each frame to a new page?