Calc Add-in Java extension: assign function to a new category

[Eike Rathke]

Hi Mikhail,

On Monday, 2015-08-03 00:53:40 +0300, Mikhail Zemlyanukha wrote:

> In LibO Calc Java extension, in XAddIn interface there're 2 functions:
> getProgrammaticCategoryName() and getDisplayCategoryName(). From
> Javadoc I see that getProgrammaticCategoryName must return one of
> existing categories, while I would like to have a new one.
> 
> It is not clear if getDisplayCategoryName can return a new category.
> But it is not called anyway, as I can see from logs.

getProgrammaticCategoryName() is called though, if you take a look at
the existing Add-Ins, for example scaddins/source/datefunc/datefunc.cxx,
you'll see that getDisplayCategoryName() calls
getProgrammaticCategoryName(), or returns identical names as in
scaddins/source/analysis/analysis.cxx

The getDisplayCategoryName() probably was meant to return translated
category names for localized Add-Ins, but..

The categories are maintained in Calc and are translated for localized
UI languages. If an unknown category is returned, the categorization
falls back to the general Add-In category.

> Is it possible to create a new category?

Only if Calc and the Function Wizard are adapted to handle yet unknown
categories. What category do you have in mind anyway?

> I posted this question at stackoverflow too:
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/31777014/1028256

Btw, we have our own Ask instance running at http://ask.libreoffice.org/

  Eike

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