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Bookmarks Menu

by hanya
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BookmarksMenu is an extension to add a menu like a favorits menu on the OpenOffice.org menubar.
This extension is based on the idea of Malte Timmermann's Favorites Menu.
Favorites Menu is temporaly created menus but a menu created by BookmarksMenu extension is parmanent. But easy to remove it.

After installation of the extension, execute the macro from the Tools - Add-Ons - BookmarksMenu... entry that shows Bookmarks Menu dialog. And push the help button of the dialog to show the help file.

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Operating System: System Independent
Compatible with: OpenOffice.org 2.3 | StarOffice 8 Update 8 or higher.
Official release: 0.5.2
Date: 2008-Apr-29
Size: 253.02 KB
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Wed, 04/30/2008 - 18:42 — vlbouw

error when i have update bookmarks

When i have upgrade extension bookmarks and i have recent link to a folder
made, this doesn't work again when the update is done.
It is bored when you must de wizard again and delete the old one.

Is this solve the problem?

Frank

Wed, 04/30/2008 - 19:23 — hanya

Re: error

Open folder with the filemanager uses ShellCommand module of the Basic. So, did you back up it before update and restore it after update of the extension ?

Wed, 04/30/2008 - 20:18 — vlbouw

error

I have made the link wirth the wizard and choose "Open directory" or "Open ...."dialog with specified directory." When there is a update i choose for install and when i use the link it doesn't work. When i use the link to a file its oke. So i didn't backup or restore things.

Mon, 04/28/2008 - 23:10 — Jørgen Rasmussen

Open Directory

I have trouble using this extension for opening directories. I have used the wizard, and I get a error message when executing the entry. It seems there is a couple of " too many in:
ExecuteCommand("explorer.exe", ""C:\Program Files""). When I press the Test button it works. Is this a bug?
Jørgen Rasmussen

Tue, 04/29/2008 - 09:54 — hanya

Bug.

Yes, it is a bug. The argument needs to quote with three double quote marks if it has space characters. I will fix the serious bug because it brings syntax error into the basic module.
Please try 0.5.2.

Mon, 04/21/2008 - 18:04 — Antonimo

Bookmark This document does not work with "&" in folder name

I used "Bookmark This Document" on a writer document that I am frequently working with. Clicking on the entry in the list does not work.

Creating the bookmark using the wizard does not work either.

I discovered that when I renamed the folder several levels up and removed the ampersand (&) from the folder name, the Bookmark This Document and resulting link worked fine.

Unfortunately, I cannot rename the folder permanently because many other shortcuts and links already exist.

I am using Windows XP Pro SP2 with JRE 1.6.0_03 and OO 2.4.0

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 09:39 — hanya

Re: Path including "&"

Thank you for your reporting the issue.
The problem is fixed on 0.5.1 and already released. Now you can use "%, &, #, =" characters in the file path.

Thu, 05/08/2008 - 05:49 — Antonimo

Re. Re: Path including "&"

Fast response and lovely work - it is a truly useful extension.

Thank you.

Fri, 04/11/2008 - 06:33 — shnuzma

Multi-word paths

I've noticed when I try to make a bookmark to open the following path (in Gnome with xdg-open), it doesn't work:
/media/hdb1/LargeRecords/RenPy Projects

It works fine with paths I've tried without multiple words.

Mon, 04/14/2008 - 09:05 — hanya

Re: Multi-word paths

Thank you for your report. And fixed on 0.4.3.
Tested in Gnome with nautilus and in winXP with explorer. If someone use nautilus as the file manager, try this command as file manager "nautilus --no-desktop --browser" (without double quote characters).
I couldn't find xdg-open in my environment....

Fri, 04/11/2008 - 01:10 — shnuzma

Suggestion

Suggestion: add the Bookmarks menu to the quickstarter (that way, you won't have to open a blank file, or an empty OpenOffice, before you can use it).

I've been looking for something like this. Thanks!

Mon, 04/14/2008 - 09:20 — hanya

Re:quickstarter

Thank you for your suggestion. But current quickstarter is not configurable. If the issue i86798 has a chance to fix, I may add the feature.

Thu, 01/31/2008 - 08:39 — auberon

french translation

I have translated this extension to french. Where can I send the files ?

Thu, 01/31/2008 - 19:23 — hanya

Re:

Hi, please send it to mail hanya[AT]openoffice.org

Thu, 01/10/2008 - 14:37 — dimbulb

Two Thumbs Up!!

Sweet! Nice job on the extension. It is invaluable to me as I don't care for desktop shortcuts and as an Ubuntu user I didn't like filling up a Gnome Panel with document shortcuts. A dream come true.

Tue, 01/08/2008 - 16:05 — CyberT

Sub-Menus

Hi, Congratulations and thanks for this very useful extension.

One suggestion for improvement: It took me a while to find out how to create sub-menus. These seem to be called 'parent menu' (Bookmarks --> Edit Bookmarks --> New -> Type=ParentMenu). Perhaps the term 'sub-menu' would be more appropriate, or 'sub-menu' appended to the help file or something.

Thu, 01/31/2008 - 06:59 — hanya

Re:

Thank you for your reply. I changed it to Sub-Menu on version 0.3.3.

Sun, 12/09/2007 - 10:14 — Johannes

Bookmars Menu and Folder

Hello, I use the Extension above - is it possible not only to bookmark a document but folder too?

greetings

Sun, 12/09/2007 - 13:52 — hanya

Open Folder

Hi, If you want to open a folder with your file manager, use "ShellCommand" type to make a new entry. For example:

  • On Windows OS, Type: "ShellCommand", Url: explorer.exe and Arguments: C:\Program Files (folder path that you want to open).
  • On KDE desktop environment, Type: "ShellCommand", Url: kfmclient, Arguments: openURL /home/username.
  • On GNOME, ... sorry I don't have GNOME environment but Nautilus or gmc may be used in the same way above.

Do not input any double quote or quote charactors in the Url or the Arguments.

If ShellCommand type selected, the extension makes a subroutine of OOo Basic to execute the command automatically and set its URL of the macro to the entry. Some application can be launch from an entry of the bookmarks menu in the same way.

Sun, 12/09/2007 - 20:00 — Johannes

Open Folder

Hi hanya - that's it!
thank you very much

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 12:18 — sybille

Opening folders and files in Linux

In GNOME, you can use "xdg-open" (without quotation marks) with the ShellCommand in Bookmarks Menu to open any file or folder with whatever application is the default for the system.

For example:

  • xdg-open /home/Documents/

    • Opens the Documents directory in Nautilus (or the default file manager if set to something other than Nautilus)

  • xdg-open /home/Desktop/some.pdf

    • Opens some.pdf in Document Viewer aka Evince (or the default pdf viewer if set to something other than Evince)

  • xdg-open /home/video.mpg

    • Opens video.mpg in Movie Player aka Totem (or the default player for mpeg files if set to something other than Totem)

    and so on.

    The xdg-open command should work in the same way in KDE, XFCE, and other environments where the xdg-utils package is installed. More details here:
    http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html
    ---
    Ubuntu Linux (7.10)

    Mon, 11/19/2007 - 22:30 — Elwin

    A slight glitch

    If you click Tools>Add-ons->bookmarks menu and then Cancel right on, you''ll get an error message...

    Tue, 11/20/2007 - 10:31 — hanya

    Bug fix.

    Thank you for your suggestion.

    It caused by the kind of modules that installed in OpenOffice.org. And it has been fixed on 0.3.1.

    Tue, 11/20/2007 - 14:28 — auberon

    Problem

    I tried for the first time to update within OOo (from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1) and, even if my bookmarks are still available, I don't see them anymore when I click on "Edit Bookmarks".
    Note : the cause of the problem could be that I renamed the menu... just an idea.

    Even when I delete the extension, the menu is still there and works.

    I download the extension again and install normally after removing the old one.

    Now, when I want to edit "Edit Bookmark", there is an Runtime error basic.
    > DialogLibraries.setPosSize(40,40,0,0,com.sun.star.awt.PosSize.POS)

    Tue, 11/20/2007 - 15:23 — hanya

    Runtime error fix.

    > DialogLibraries.setPosSize(40,40,0,0,com.sun.star.awt.PosSize.POS)
    This bug has fixed on 0.3.2. I'm sorry for my mistake...
    Other problems you said are caused by, it I thougut.

    Fri, 11/16/2007 - 23:43 — auberon

    A bookmark in OOo - I dreamed of it ! \o/

    Thank you very much !

    I have a lot of files on my hardware scattered in many, many locations.
    So much easier to open them now !

    Suggestions for the future :
    > It would be cool to have in the menu "add this file to the bookmark"
    > In Edit Bookmarks, reorganize the buttons : the button "update" should be under the editing widgets. I clicked several times on OK, closing the window instead of updating anything. The GUI is not very intuitive.
    > A side panel, like the Firefox one, would be very great !

    Sat, 11/17/2007 - 16:24 — hanya

    Version 0.2.0

    Thank you for your suggestions.

    > It would be cool to have in the menu "add this file to the bookmark"
    This feature is added on 0.2.0.
    > In Edit Boo...
    The dialog of 0.1.1 is not freandly for users. Create new - update entry process is taken away and new dialog is added to edit the entry.
    > A side panel, like the Firefox one, would be very great !
    Current OpenOffice.org does not provide the feature of dockable window for the API and it can not be support by using only OpenOffice.org Basic.

    Sun, 11/18/2007 - 14:22 — auberon

    Thank you for the improvements.

    This is a very cool extension ! :)

    I have other suggestions. (But I don't know what the API allows.)
    > Label and url fields shouldn't be editable, as we must use the button Edit to edit.
    > The url field is too short.
    > Move entries between submenus would be great.

    Mon, 11/19/2007 - 09:18 — hanya

    Version 0.3.0

    Thank you for your additional suggestions.
    > Label and url fields shouldn't be editable, as we must use the button Edit to edit.
    It was fixed.
    > Move entries between submenus would be great.
    Only one step movement of a selected entry between current menu and the parent or submenus is supported by its contextmenu.

    Mon, 11/19/2007 - 13:59 — auberon

    It works

    Thank you again :)