Dispatch to the options dialog

[socky]

Hello,
I'm trying to find a way to dispatch to the options dialog (Tools -> Options...) from a toolbar button, in the same way the Extension manager does it. Means only showing the config Nodes / leafs of a specific extension.
At first I thought it could be a property of the "OptionsTreeDialog" command, but no luck. No idea which properties (if any) are accepted by this command.

Maybe someone knows how the Extension Manager does it...?

Thanks for any help

[hanya]

Hi, Welcome to this forum.

SfxAbstractDialogFactory#CreateOptionsDialog method which is used in the extension manager is not exported as API.

[socky]

Hello,
Thank you, I noticed the same after going through the sources...

I guess, I will then create a customized options dialog containing my option pages.

[hanya]

So, css.awt.ContainerWindowProvider service can be used to make a window from your existing options page to embed your own option dialog.

[hanya]

Here is a way to use OptionsTreeDialog call with OptionsPageURL argument, this call opens specified page as last opened page:

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sub OpenExtensionsOptionPage
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")
arg = CreateUnoStruct("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")
arg.Name = "OptionsPageURL"
arg.Value = "vnd.sun.star.expand:$UNO_USER_PACKAGES_CACHE/uno_packages/svazblta.tmp_/BookmarksMenu-1.0.0.oxt/dialogs/Options.xdl"
dispatcher.executeDispatch(_
  ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame, _
  ".uno:OptionsTreeDialog", "", 0, Array(arg))
end sub

The OptionsPageURL can be get from its configuration as shown above.

[prof_milki]

Wasted quite a bit of time with this approach.
But the link shortcut as documented in [Solved] Opening OptionsDialog UI from the menu does actually work.

The magic ingredient turned out to be the :string suffix for the OptionsPageURL parameter:

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<prop oor:name="URL" oor:type="xs:string"><value>.uno:OptionsTreeDialog?OptionsPageURL:string=%origin%/OptionsDialog.xdl</value></prop>
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