Re: Resetting to default character style

> Have you thought of using the DispatchHelper api ?
> 
> Something like (in basic):
> 
> dim args(1) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
> args(0).Name = "Template"
> args(0).Value = "Default"
> args(1).Name = "Family"
> args(1).Value = 2
> 
> dispatcher.executeDispatch(document,
".uno:StyleApply", "", 0, args())

Thanks for the suggestion, but after a quick test it seems
to me that
the style name supplied here (in this case as args(0).Value)
still has
to be the style name from the UI, which for the default
style gets
localized (and thus setting "Default" would only
work in an
English-based locale). This is the exact same problem I'm
having with
TextCursor.CharStyleName, so it seems using the dispatch
won't help.
Other suggestions most welcome 

Cheers,

Zbigniew Banach

>> I'm trying to reset the character style in a piece
of Writer document
>> text to default from the API (using a Python
macro). To illustrate, I've
>> got a com.sun.star.text.TextCursor full of selected
text with the
>> character style 'foo' (set earlier via
TextCursor.CharStyleName) and I
>> need to reset the selected text character style to
default . I've been
>> trying to crack this for a looong while now, but
with no luck, so I
>> guess I need professional help now 
>>
>> The Reference says (section 8.4.1): "The
office comes with a set of
>> default styles. These styles use programmatic names
on the API level.
>> (...) Additionally the built-in styles have two
different names: a true
>> object name and an alias that is displayed at the
user interface. This
>> is not usually visible in an English OpenOffice.org
version, except for
>> the default styles that are named
"Standard" as programmatic name and
>> "Default" in the user interface."
>>
>> This explains why the CharStyleName property cannot
be used to directly
>> set the default style (it only has the localized UI
name). Elsewhere
>> (can't remember where), I found the information
that the "default" isn't
>> a proper style, but a feature that simply clears
all formatting and
>> styles from the text. So how can I access it from
the API? AFAIK
>> TextCursor's only property/method related to
character styles is
>> CharStyleName, which in this case is useless.
>>
>> Googling around I've found others had this problem,
but I found no
>> answers. So far I'm relying on a hack based on the
observation that the
>> default style is always (?) last in the style list
accessible via
>>
document.getStyleFamilies().getByName("CharacterStyles&
quot;), but it's
>> hardly elegant and seems asking for trouble.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any help or ideas, as I've been
going in circles on this
>> for the last few months.

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