Else have a look at this link: (Googling for COM-related stuff is a PITA since com is also a top-level internet domain name.

I suppose that there is a bridging framework that creates COM to UNO glueing components.īut if you want to automate OpenOffice, you could as well start to use UNO (it is not as if you could write COM code that addresses both MS Office as well as LO/OO). I have to admit that I have not used it (only my co-workers) while I have used COM automation for MS Office a lot (Visual C++/ATL). LibreOffice is a powerful and free office suite, a successor to OpenOffice(.org), used by millions of people around the world.Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. How to download and configure auto updates in Open Office Launch any Open Office program (e.g Writer). The creators of OpenOffice/LibreOffice invented their own component framework which is called UNO.įrom the limited insights into this framework (quite crappy documentation, but the official COM documentation is also crap ), it seems to me as if UNO is quite a match to COM (no fixed ABI, so that components from the same environment can talk to each other without having to translate their calls into a common ABI). The creators of OpenOffice/LibreOffice invented their own component framework which is called UNO.

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