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Developing Scripts in NetBeans

This document describes how to set up NetBeans for Office Scripting and how to write a simple script using NetBeans. You can download the NetBeans IDE from the NetBeans download page.

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Pre-requisites

Now start NetBeans and mount the directory you created using the File/Mount Filesystem menu option. You also need to mount all of the jar files in the <Office installation>/program/classes directory in order to access the Office API from your scripts.

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Creating a Parcel Recipe

Office scripts are delivered in Script Parcels. Like Office documents they are zip files. Script Parcels have the .sxp extension. Script Parcels are generated from Parcel Recipes where all of the files that are necessary to create the parcel are put together. To create a new Parcel Recipe: This will create a new directory with the name you chose. In this directory you will find a Contents directory where all of your files will be placed. An empty stub file will have been placed in the Contents directory and can be used as a starting point for your script.

Note: To add further empty stub scripts to your Parcel Recipe, right click on the Contents directory and use the New/Office Scripting/Empty Script menu item.

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Actions available for Parcel Recipe

If the user right clicks on the parcel directory they should be able to use the following actions:

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Actions available for Script Parcels

Script Parcels supports only one action:

Note: If you deploy a Script Parcel to an OpenOffice.org installation you need to use the Tools/Scripting Add-on's/Refresh All Scripts menu item for the new script to appear in the Assign Script dialog.

Note: You can also deploy to Office documents within NetBeans using drag and drop or cut and paste.

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Actions available for Office Documents

Office Documents are also recognised by NetBeans. Any parcels contained in the document will be displayed as nodes of the Office document. Deleting one of these nodes will remove the Script Parcel from the document. You should ensure that the document is not open in OpenOffice.org before deleting any parcels it may contain. Office documents support the standard Delete, Cut and Copy actions and the following custom actions:

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Debugging Java Office scripts in NetBeans

Note: As the BeanShell scripting language does not support debugging it is not possible to debug BeanShell Office scripts from NetBeans. You can however use the Interactive BeanShell scripting menu item under the Tools menu in OpenOffice.org to test BeanShell code. Just enter any BeanShell code and hit the Eval button to execute it.

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Troubleshooting

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Last Modified: Tue Mar 12 11:40:28 GMT 2003

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