Load files into Writer only?

[Piet van Oostrum]

Jens Tröger wrote:

 > I've done some digging around, and I've figured out how to spawn a
 > Writer instance.  But then I get stuck when I try to load the document.
 > There's more code here:
 > 
 >   https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=75608#p345563
 > 
 > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated :-)
 > 
 > Thanks!

document = desktop.loadComponentFromURL("file:///path/to/document.odt", "_blank", 0, ())
if document.supportsService('com.sun.star.text.TextDocument'):
   ...

You can also specify in the loadComponentFromUrl call thet you want Writer documents preferably, but this doesn't prevent LO to open other types also that it recognizes:

from com.sun.star.beans import PropertyValue
prop = PropertyValue('FilterName', 0, 'writer', 0)
document = desktop.loadComponentFromURL("file:///path/to/document.odt", "_blank", 0, (prop,))

It only means that LO will treat it as a Writer document if it can't inder the type from the file itself.
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