Building a table in Write using BASIC

[Fortunato1]

I want to write script that finds a table in the Writer doc, deletes it, and recreates it. I can find it like this:

oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(ConvertToUrl("some path and file name"), "default", 0, args())
oAllTables = oDoc.TextTables
oMyTable = oAllTables.getByName("table7")

How do I delete it and create a new one with the same name in the same location?

I’m using LibreOffice 24.2.6.2 (X86_64) on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

[fpy]

@Fortunato1

same location?

 ovc = ThisComponent.Currentcontroller.getviewcursor
 ovc.gotorange(oMyTable.getanchor.getstart, false)

@Fortunato1

delete

oMyTable.dispose

@Fortunato1

create

oNewTable = ThisComponent.createInstance("com.sun.star.text.TextTable")
oNewTable.initialize(2, 3)
Thiscomponent.Text.insertTextContent( ovc, oNewTable, False)

@Fortunato1

same name

oNewTable.name = "table7"

For ref.

• Apache OpenOffice Community Forum - Getting TextTable's TextRange - (View topic)
• How do define a cursor in a TABLE with a macro? - #8 by JohnSUN
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