[GSoC] Improved Color Selection - how do I load .soc files

[Tomaz Vajngerl]

Hi,

On July 25, 2014 04:11 CEST, Krisztian Pinter <pin.terminator at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi All!
> 
> I'm trying to load .soc palettes, they are in XML format, and it's
> hardcoded in LO to load "standard.soc" to get the default colors.
> 
> The loading process starts here:
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svx/source/xoutdev/xtable.cxx#234
> SvxXMLXTableImport::load returns it's result to an object created
> by createInstance().
> CreateInstance is here:
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svx/source/xoutdev/xtabcolr.cxx#58
> It calls this:
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/svx/source/unodraw/XPropertyTable.cxx#269
> 
> And this kind of keeps going but I'm not really closer to what I want to
> do, namely to have a function that is given a path to a .soc file, and
> returns a vector of colors.
> 
> If anyone has any insights, please share them! Thank you!

You need to do something like this:

XColorListRef pList = XPropertyList::AsColorList(XPropertyList::CreatePropertyListFromURL(XCOLOR_LIST, "path/to/soc/file"));
pList->Load();

I think you already convert from XColorListRef somewhere to color vector so use that. :)

> All the best,
> Krisztian
 
Regards, Tomaž