Hi Fernand, Thank you for your response, it may help indeed. It seems that you create your own xcs file from scratch and store it in a custom location. I think that in my case, I will need to find a way to make it cross platform and environment independent. Cheers <div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/24 Fernand Vanrie <<a href="mailto:sos@pmgroup.be">sos@pmgroup.be</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div><div class="h5"> Martin , i use folowed BASIC code to make a "path" consitent , maybe it helps ? public sElementnaam , sfotopath as string public oParameter as object sub addFotoPath() sRegisterPath = "/org.openoffice.OpmaakMacro.FotoPath/Parameters/" CreateRegistrySchemaPathIfNotPresent(sRegisterPath) aSettings = GetConfigSettings(sRegisterPath) sElementNaam = "FOTO" sParaNaam = "FotoPath" sParameter = "c:\test" call addParameter(aSettings, sParaNaam, sParaMeter) end sub sub getFotoPath sRegisterPath = "/org.openoffice.OpmaakMacro.FotoPath/Parameters/" aSettings = GetConfigSettings(sRegisterPath) asElNames = aSettings.ElementNames if aSettings.hasByName("FOTO") then oParameter = aSettings.getByName("FOTO") sFOTOpath = oParameter.getByName("ParameterString") else sFOTOpath = "" endif end sub function GetConfigSettings(sRegisterPath as String) as Object 'Taken from DannyB Dim args(1) As new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue aConfProv = createUnoService("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationProvider") args(1).Name = "nodepath" args(1).Value = sRegisterPath args(0).Name = "EnableAsync" args(0).Value = false GetConfigSettings = aConfProv.createInstanceWithArguments("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationUpdateAccess", args()) end function sub CreateRegistrySchemaPathIfNotPresent(sRegisterPath as String) oPathSettings = CreateUnoService( "com.sun.star.util.PathSettings" ) xray oPathSettings sPathConfig = oPathSettings.Work 'Config asPath1 = split(sRegisterPath, "/") sFullDotPath = asPath1(1) asPath2 = Split(sFullDotPath,".") sFolder = join(asPath2,"/") sRegistrySchemaPath = <a>"file:///H:/"</a> & sFolder & ".xcs" sFileName = asPath2(UBound(asPath2)) sPackage = left(sFullDotPath, len(sFullDotPath)-len(sFileName)-1) oSFA = createUNOService ("com.sun.star.ucb.SimpleFileAccess") if not oSFA.exists(sRegistrySchemaPath) then 'See the chapter 15 of the dev guide for some explanation print sRegistrySchemaPath oOutStream = oSFA.openFileWrite(sRegistrySchemaPath) oOutText = createUNOService ("com.sun.star.io.TextOutputStream") oOutText.setOutputStream(oOutStream) oOutText.WriteString("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString("<oor:component-schema oor:name=""" & sFileName & """ oor:package=""" & sPackage & """ " ) oOutText.WriteString("xml:lang=""en-US"" xmlns:oor="<a href="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" target="_blank">"http://openoffice.org/2001/registry"</a>" " ) oOutText.WriteString("xmlns:xs="<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" target="_blank">"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"</a>" " ) oOutText.WriteString("xmlns:xsi="<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" target="_blank">"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"</a>">" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString("<templates>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString(" <group oor:name=""Parameter"">" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString(" <prop oor:name=""ParameterName"" oor:type=""xs:string""/>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString(" <prop oor:name=""ParameterString"" oor:type=""xs:string""/>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString(" </group>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString("</templates>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString("<component>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString(" <set oor:name=""Parameters"" oor:node-type=""Parameter""/>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString("</component>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.WriteString("</oor:component-schema>" & Chr(10)) oOutText.closeOutput() oOutStream.closeOutput endif end sub sub addParameter(aSettings as Object, ParameterName as String, ParameterString as String) Dim arParameters1(0) As new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue arParameters1(0).Name = ParameterName arParameters1(0).Value = ParameterString call setParameters(aSettings, arParameters1(0)) end sub function getParameterCount(aSettings as Object) as long getParameterCount = UBound(aSettings.ElementNames)+1 end function sub setParameters(aSettings as Object, aNewValue as Object) if aSettings.hasbyName(sElementnaam) then 'print aNewvalue.name oParameter = aSettings.createInstance() oParameter.ParameterName = aNewValue.Name oParameter.ParameterString = aNewValue.Value aSettings.ReplaceByName(sElementNaam , oParameter) aSettings.commitChanges() else oParameter = aSettings.createInstance() oParameter.ParameterName = aNewValue.Name oParameter.ParameterString = aNewValue.Value aSettings.insertByName(sElementNaam , oParameter) aSettings.commitChanges() endif end sub </div></div><blockquote type="cite">Hi everybody,<div><div class="h5"> I'm hacking the cross-platform filepicker (in fpicker/source/office). I added a "Places" (bookmarks) list on the left and I would like to save the entries that the user bookmarked . Cedric Bosdonnat told me to look at xcu and xcs files, but I'm a bit lost. I'm looking for a code sample where user's persistent configuration is manipulated (read and written) and/or anything that can be usefull, like search keywords, links to old threads in the mailing list, which would help me to identify some good practices (naming conventions, for instance). Cheers, Martin Richard <fieldset></fieldset> </div></div><div class="im"><pre>_______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a> </pre> </div></blockquote> </div> _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a> </blockquote></div> -- Martin<a href="http://www.martiusweb.net" target="_blank"></a> Richard <a href="http://www.martiuweb.net" target="_blank">www.martiusweb.net</a>