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.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Hi,
Works fine if I select the ODG button. But I get various problems if I select SVG or PNG; Filter not found error, or OO just disappears. So I’m sticking with ODG for now ;-).
Would it be possible to modify the program so that it remembered the email address from the last time you used OO?
Apart from that it’s a rather cool idea. Can’t wait to show my daughter who’s a clip-art junky.
Cheers,
Paul
BTW, I’m using version 2.2 of OpenOffice.
June 9th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Hello All,
The installation went fine but I get the following error: Error communicating with Clker.com
Can it handle proxy servers?
Please led me know.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Unfortunately no. I’m assuming there is a direct connection to the internet, or at most a NAT, which then should be transparent.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Great idea on the add-on. Unfortunately, whenever I try to copy a clip-art to the clipboard, the entire OpenOffice crashes.
I am using the OOo 3.0 Beta in Vista.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Hi, stupid question, but how can i add items to my basket?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Ali: Click on the clipart you like and on the clipart page click on the little plus under the image (down to the right).
The image should appear in your openoffice plugin.
I know it is not very intuitive or straight forward, and we’ll work on making it better in the future.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I think it does not work with openOffice 3.0? At least not for me.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I haven’t tested it on 3.0 since it is in beta. But I will try it & post the results since you pointed it out. Thanks for the feedback.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I tested it on 3.0 & it works. P.S. 3.0 is still not final, and things can change, and it might not even consistently run on all systems, since there still might be some bugs.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I have the same java loader problem that others describe using OOo 3.0 under Linux. I switched to another computer still running OOo 2.4 and it wouldn’t load there either.