Imagine it as a transparent layer with contents that can affect the text under the layer, for instance by forcing it to wrap around contents on the DrawPage. They can be found on the DrawPage, which is discussed below.Ībove the text lies the DrawPage. The service manager is asked for a text content, then you insert it into the text.Īfterwards, the majority of these text contents in a text can be retrieved from the model using text content suppliers. Examples for text contents created by the text document service manager are text tables, text fields, drawing shapes, text frames or graphic objects. Each document model has its own service manager, so that the services can be adapted to the document when required. Note that the document service manager is different from the main service manager that is used when connecting to the office. The service manager of the document model creates all text contents for the model, except for the paragraphs. The usage of text will be discussed in Working with Text Documents. It consists of character strings organized in paragraphs and other text contents. The core of the text document model is the text. The text document model in the Apache OpenOffice API has five major architectural areas, cf. Keeping the difference between model and controller in mind, we will now discuss the parts of a text document model in the Apache OpenOffice API. Automatic page or line breaks are not really part of the document data, but rather something that is needed in a certain presentation of the document. The second purpose is getting information about the current view status, such as the current selection, the current page, the total page count or the line count.The controller interacts with the user interface for movement, such as moving the visible text cursor, flipping through screen pages or changing the zoom factor.But the controller is not used to change a document. The model has a controller object which enables developers to manipulate the visual presentation of the document in the user interface. It is important to understand that developers have to work with the model directly, when they want to change it through the Apache OpenOffice API. By model, we mean data that forms the basis of a document and is organized in a manner that allows working with the data independently of their visual representation in a graphical user interface. A document in our context is a product of work that can be stored and printed to make the result of the work a permanent resource. In the Apache OpenOffice API, a text document is a document model which is able to handle text contents.

Parts of a document