Question on 5.0 and StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL

[Laurent Godard]

Hi

>> Is the oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL still valid in 5.0 ?
>>

sure !

>> I am calling it in my macro and getting an error about the  URL parameter
>> which is "file:///tmp/file.ptt"
>> so seems as though the file URL is OK and the file is present.
>>


wild guess
file.ppt not ptt which is an unknown format ?

>> The error is BASIC runtime... "type detection failed."
>>

--> type detection

HTH

Laurent