Class DrawDispatcher

Info

Enables dispatch commands to be sent to LibreOffice Impress and LibreOffice Draw that require GUI Automation.

An excellent example is Impress Make Slides (the fifth slide) on demonstrating how this works.

See Also:

• OOO Development Tools - Part 3: Draw & Impress

• ooodev.office.draw.Draw.add_dispatch_shape()

Class

class odevgui_win.draw_dispatcher.DrawDispatcher

Draw Dispat Automation

static create_dispatch_shape(slide: XDrawPage, shape_dispatch: str) → XShape | None

Creates a dispatch shape in two steps.

1. Select the shape by calling ooodev.utils.lo.Lo.dispatch_cmd()

2. Creates the shape on screen by imitating a press and drag on the visible page.

A reference to the created shape is obtained by assuming that it’s the new top-most element on the page.

Parameters:

• slide (XDrawPage) – Draw Page

• shape_dispatch (str) – Shape Dispatch Command

• *titles – Optional Extended sequence of title information. This is used to match windows title.

Raises:

ElementNotFoundError – If unable to find a LibreOffice window to dispatch to.

Returns:

Shape on Success; Otherwise, None.

Return type:

XShape | None

Notes

Assumes that connection to LibreOffice has been made with ooodev.utils.lo.Lo.load_office().