Subj: Problem controlling Writer remotely -- Please help

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 08/07/2013 02:16 PM, Lars Doelle wrote:
>  > Not sure I get your scenario right.
>
> What i want to do is to setup a TCP-server from within LibreOffice that
> is able
>
> to read and send raw data over the wire using some Basic routine processing
>
> it in between.

You can't do that with LibreOffice BASIC, but could do it with a 
LibreOffice extension written in some language that allows to spawn 
additional threads.

>  > If you want the LibreOffice
>
>  > (soffice) process to accept incoming connections, just start it with an
>
>  > --accept=... command line argument. (The resulting
>
>  > css.connection.Acceptor is running in its own thread then, to not block
>
>  > anything else while waiting for connections, see
>
>  > desktop/source/offacc/acceptor.{hxx,cxx}.)
>
> If you say above some '--accept=<parameter>' magic would already create
>
> a silly TCP-server that passes all connections accepted to some Basic
> routine
>
> for further read and write i would definitely love to learn more about
> this trick.

No, it allows external code to connect to LibreOffice via the UNO remote 
protocol (URP).

> Unfortunately, i didn't find any syntax or options for the
> '<parameter>'. We're
>
> using "--accept=socket,host=0,port=2002;urp;", but this implies
> UNO-marshalling,
>
> which we want to get rid of for reasons outlined in the original mail.

Ah, now I think I understand your original mail better---your problem 
with incompatible Python versions means you want to replace the URP 
communication between the two applications with something not using UNO. 
  In which case, forget what I wrote about --accept, and rather try to 
create an extension as outlined above.

Stephan