Adding Languages to Writer's Character, Font Menu

[Richard Wordingham]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:54:54 +0100
Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:31:16 +0200
> Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> wrote:

> > Simply in a css::lang::Locale set the Language field to "qlt" and in
> > the Variant have the language tag, see
> > http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/structcom_1_1sun_1_1star_1_1lang_1_1Locale.html

> It may be 'simply' to you, but my macro to set the language doesn't
> progress beyond the '::' before 'Locale', failing with "Object not
> accessible.

Part of my trouble was using '::' instead of '.' in the multi-part
names when writing in Basic.  Another part was forgetting that I could
pass an integer or a struct in the same field.

However, the approach using executeDispatch() failed.  The unusual
languages were simply reported as en-GB, and were recorded thus in
saved .odt files.

However, I now have successful macros of the form:

Sub Lue

dim region as object

dim aLocale As New com.sun.star.lang.Locale

aLocale.Country = ""

aLocale.Language = "qlt"

aLocale.Variant = "khb-CN"

region = ThisComponent.CurrentSelection.getByIndex(0)

region.CharLocaleComplex = aLocale

end sub

As I can now fairly readily mark complex-script text as khb-CN, kkh-MM,
nod-TH and tts-TH (and all within a few lines of one another), what
problems should I expect?  (I suppose I should try to make this into an
extension.)

Richard.