v0.1 Beta release of openoffice.org addon
Finally, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s 4:21 AM and I’m very happy to reach this stage with the openoffice addon.
You can download it Openoffice.org addon for clker.com integration . Installation is very easy, from the tools menu in openoffice, select Extension Manager. Click add, and point to the file. You will need to restart openoffice for it to work.
This extension will show you the contents of your basket stored on clker, and will allow you to place any clipart image in the clipboard, then you can paste it in the correct place in your document.
Still there are some minor issues:
- The addon parent is currently null, so an extra window will appear in the task bar
- The way we place the picture in the clipboard is by loading it in draw, select all and copy then closing draw. There are better ways for doing this. You will notice that the screen will flicker especially if your using the ODG or the SVG formats since draw takes some time to render the vectors.
In case you wanted to play with the source, the addon source is here.
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Tags: addon, clipart, clker, gallery, online, openoffice, uno
December 13th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for the great service. Love the addon. Thanks!
February 21st, 2008 at 5:19 am
Very Good
March 30th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
attempted to load into OpenOffice using extensions manager. Error received is Could not create Java implementation loader. Its sitting in the manager extension disabled. OOo is v2.3. Any suggestion?
March 30th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Addtionally, the Creative Common menu option is not displayed at the bottom of menu item Insert after restarting OOo.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I recall that I compiled it with Java 5. Just as a pre-caution make sure you update your Java virtual machine to the latest. Then from openoffice choose tools -> options , expand the “openoffice.org” option, select “Java” and make sure you are using the latest version of the java virtual machine.
For the Creative Common menu, it looks like that you have another extension and there’s some sort of conflict there. I’m not sure which extension you have, but you can go to Tools -> Extension manager and send me the names of the extensions you’re using and I will try them.
Thanks for feedback.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
THanks Sounds COOL
April 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I’ve installed the clkr.oxt into NeoOffice on OS X and I am getting the following error:
“Error setting the look and feel”
this happens during application launch and when an untitled document opens.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:48 am
I’m not sure if it will run on NeoOffice. I’ve got a bunch of things to fix on the website itself now. Once I’m done I’ll try to release a better version of the plugin.