[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Display Excel in full screen mode

[duongn@xxxxxxxxxx (Duong Nguyen)]

This works for me. It's basically the same as what you mentioned.

/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2007 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
*     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package swt.examples.ole;

import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;

/*
* Open an OLE Excel sheet.
*
* For a list of all SWT example snippets see
* http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
* 
* @since 3.3
*/ 
public class ExcelFullScreen {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Display display = new Display();
		Shell shell = new Shell(display);
		shell.setText("Excel Example");
		shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
		OleClientSite clientSite = null;
		try {
			OleFrame frame = new OleFrame(shell, SWT.NONE);
			clientSite = new OleClientSite(frame, SWT.NONE, "Excel.Sheet");
			OleAutomation sheet = new OleAutomation(clientSite);
			OleAutomation application = getAutoProperty(sheet, "Application");
			setProperty(application, "DisplayFullScreen", new Variant(true));
		} catch (SWTError e) {
			System.out.println("Unable to open activeX control");
			return;
		}
		shell.setSize(800, 600);
		shell.open();
		
		while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
			if (!display.readAndDispatch())
				display.sleep();
		}
		display.dispose();
	}
	
	// These helper methods facilitate writing the OLE apps
	private static boolean setProperty(OleAutomation auto, String name,
			Variant value) {
		return auto.setProperty(property(auto, name), value);
	}

	private static int property(OleAutomation auto, String name) {
		return auto.getIDsOfNames(new String[] { name })[0];
	}

	private static OleAutomation getAutoProperty(OleAutomation auto, String 
name) {
		Variant varResult = auto.getProperty(property(auto, name));
		if (varResult != null && varResult.getType() != OLE.VT_EMPTY) {
			OleAutomation result = varResult.getAutomation();
			varResult.dispose();
			return result;
		}
		return null;
	}
}


Sajid wrote:

> Hi All,

> Does anybody has an idea how to hide Ribbons (new toolbars at the top) 
> through OleAutomation. I tried it hard but couldnt achieve. I tried to 
> at-least show in a full screen but no success
> ........
> ........
> int[] rgdispid = application.getIDsOfNames(new 
> String[]{"DisplayFullScreen"});
> int dispIdMember = rgdispid[0];
> Variant[] rgvarg = new Variant[1];
> rgvarg[0] = new Variant(true);
> boolean isX = application.setProperty(dispIdMember, rgvarg);
> ........
> ........

> Can anybody help?

> Regards