lo-extension-dev 0.0.4

A tool to help developing LibreOffice Extension.

This tool helps developing LibreOffice Extension. It mainly does:

• build an LibreOffice extension from your source

• create the Addons.xcu file following a simple yaml conf file.

• install / uninstall extension

• create shortcut from installed extension to development files

WHY

When developing for LibreOffice, it is common to often reinstall the extension to test it. It means compiling, uninstalling, installing. This tasks are time consuming. Beside, if you want to make modification of your code without reinstalling, you need to create some shortcuts from the installation path to your code. This command line tool helps achieving this goal.

Installation

$ pip install lo-extension-dev

Then create two config files using yaml. One to configure your extension, the other one to create the Addons.xcu files (OfficeMenuBar & OfficeToolBar).

Usage

To develop a LibreOffice extension, we advocate to use the following architecture. Your extension code is in src/.

─ my_extension
    │   ├── addons_conf.yml
│   ├── Addons.xcu
│   ├── extension
│   │   ├── 0.0.1
│   │   │   ├── lo-extension-testing.oxt
│   ├── extension.yml
│   ├── README.md
│   └── src
│       ├── Accelerators.xcu
│       ├── Addons.xcu
│       ├── assets
│       │   ├── avaudiologo.svg
│       │   └── sc_underline.svg
│       ├── description
│       │   ├── descr-en.txt
│       ├── description.xml
│       ├── dialogs
│       │   ├── window.xdl
│       ├── Events.xcu
│       ├── META-INF
│       │   └── manifest.xml
│       ├── Office
│       │   └── UI
│       ├── python
│       │   ├── pythonpath
│       │   └── my_macros.py
│       ├── README.md
│       └── registration
│           ├── license_en.txt
└── README.md

Once installed, a functino manage_extension is available in your terminal.

To get help, just type:

$ manage_extension -h

options:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-o, --open

Open installation directory

-m, --make

Make extension

-i, --install

Install extension

-u, --uninstall

Uninstall extension

-d, --dev

Set dev shortcuts

-id, --install-dev

Install and set dev shortcuts

Configuration files

We use two configuration files, using yaml syntax. One to generate menubar menu and toolbar menu. The second one hold the extension configuration.

extension.yml

• version : version number in format 0.0.1

• extension_name : name of your extension (no space)

• file_extension : zip or oxt

• lib : com.company.my_extension

• macros_directory : in this example, it is python. In some project, it is macros.

-addons_conf : it shouldn’t be changed. The file holding menubar & toolbar conf.

• menu_name : the label displayed in the menu bar.

addons_conf.yml

This files has two main sections :

• OfficeMenuBar

• OfficeToolBar

You can create a submenu. Don’t forget, the keys following a submenu have to be named as the function they call. It’s the same logic for the OfficeToolBar.