Getting Frames, Controllers and Models from Each Other

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• OpenOffice.org Application Environment

• Desktop Environment
• Framework API

• Frame-Controller-Model Paradigm in OpenOffice.org
• Frames
• Controllers
• Windows
• Dispatch Framework

• Using the Desktop
• Using the Component Framework

• Getting Frames, Controllers and Models from Each Other
• Frames
• Controllers
• Models
• Window Interfaces

• Creating Frames Manually
• Handling Documents

• Closing Documents
• Storing Documents

• Using the Dispatch Framework

• Command URL
• Processing Chain
• Dispatch Process
• Dispatch Results
• Dispatch Interception

• Java Window Integration

• Common Application Features

• Internationalization

• Overview and Using the API
• Implementing a New Locale

• Linguistics

• Using Spellchecker
• Using Hyphenator
• Using Thesaurus
• Events
• Implementing a Spell Checker
• Implementing a Hyphenator
• Implementing a Thesaurus

• Integrating Import and Export Filters

• Document API Filter Development

• Filtering Process
• Filter
• Filter Options
• Configuring a Filter in OpenOffice.org
• General Notes
• Necessary Steps
• Properties of a Type
• Properties of an ExtendedTypeDetection Service
• Properties of a Filter
• Properties of a FrameLoader

• XML Based Filter Development

• Components of a Filter
• Writing the Filtering Component
• The Importer
• The Exporter
• Configuration
• Sample Filter Component Inplementations
• Additional Components
• XML Filter Detection

• Number Formats

• Managing Number Formats
• Applying Number Formats

• Document Events
• Path Organization

• Path Settings
• Path Variables

• Predefined Variables
• Custom Path Variables
• Resolving Path Variables

• OpenOffice.org Single Sign-On API

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Usually developers require the controller and frame of an already loaded document model. The com.sun.star.frame.XModel interface of OpenOffice.org document models gets the controller that provides access to the frame through its com.sun.star.frame.XController interface. The following illustration shows the methods that get the controller and frame for a document model and conversely. From the frame , obtain the corresponding component and container window.

Frame-Controller-Model Organization

If the loaded component is a trivial component and implements com.sun.star.awt.XWindow only, the window and the window peer is reached by querying these interfaces from the com.sun.star.lang.XComponent returned by loadComponentFromURL().