OOoBasic crash course: Working with files
OpenOffice.org's OOoBasic gives users tools to programmatically access and manipulate files. To see how that works, we'll create a simple macro that allows you to save text snippets from the current document in a plain text file. This macro can be used to store text fragments from multiple documents in one text file, or to save deleted passages in an external file in case you need them later.
To build this macro, you can reuse the component that grabs the selected text fragment in the current document. If you've followed the previous installments of the OOoBasic crash course series on creating a lookup macro and working with words, the following code will look familiar:
Sub WriteFile()
Dim oDoc As Object, oText As Object
Dim oCursor As Object
Dim sFileName As String
oDoc=ThisComponent
oText=oDoc.Text
oCursor=oDoc.CurrentController.getViewCursor
If oCursor.String ="" then MsgBox "Please select a word to look up" : End
Notice the sFileName variable, defined as string. This variable points to the file for use in the macro. To specify the file you want, use the following code:
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