As title says it. So far I found this post which has code to copy a slide: it is done with:
dispatcher.executeDispatch(srcController.Frame, ".uno:Copy", "", 0, ())
dstController.setCurrentPage(dstApp.DrawPages.getByIndex(insert_after))
dispatcher.executeDispatch(dstController.Frame, ".uno:Paste", "", 0, ())
The Paste part works for me, but the Copy doesn’t. And I think I know why: this likely supposed to work the same as Ctrl+c would. But just after a document opened Edit → Copy menu is grayed out, so the hotkey wouldn’t do anything either. Any ideas how to make it work?
Bonus points if you know how to copy a slide without using the dispatcher, which creates this overloaded complex function as in code below. I wonder why such simple task requires that much code, I’d really expect to just do something like dstController.copySlide(slide).
For reference, below is a python code that connects to LO server, opens 2 odp documents (with hardcoded paths), and tries to copy a slide from one document to another (but since Copy doesn’t work, it simply pastes random content from the clipboard):
#!python
import uno
import os
# run libreoffice as:
# soffice --calc --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"
def connectToLO():
# get the uno component context from the PyUNO runtime
localContext = uno.getComponentContext()
resolver = localContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
"com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", localContext )
# connect to the running office
ctx = resolver.resolve( "uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext" )
smgr = ctx.ServiceManager
desktop = smgr.createInstanceWithContext( "com.sun.star.frame.Desktop",ctx)
return (desktop, smgr)
def absoluteUrl(filename):
"""Constructs absolute path to the current dir in format required by PyUNO"""
mbPrefix = '' if filename[0] in '/~' else os.path.realpath('.') + '/'
return 'file:///' + mbPrefix + os.path.expanduser(filename)
def copySlideTo(srcApp, dstApp, slide, insert_after, smgr):
srcController = srcApp.CurrentController
dstController = dstApp.CurrentController
dispatcher = smgr.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")
srcController.setCurrentPage(slide)
dispatcher.executeDispatch(srcController.Frame, ".uno:Copy", "", 0, ())
dstController.setCurrentPage(dstApp.DrawPages.getByIndex(insert_after))
dispatcher.executeDispatch(dstController.Frame, ".uno:Paste", "", 0, ())
(desktop, smgr) = connectToLO()
app1 = desktop.loadComponentFromURL(absoluteUrl("/tmp/SlideTablesSample.odp") ,"_blank", 0, ())
app2 = desktop.loadComponentFromURL(absoluteUrl("/tmp/SlideTablesSample.odp") ,"_blank", 0, ())
slide = app1.DrawPages.getByIndex(0)
copySlideTo(app1, app2, slide, 0, smgr)