Dialog Dump

Introduction

Every OpenOffice.org who ever needed to create a VCL dialog knows that this can be a ... laborious procedure: You need to

• define your dialog, with a text editor, in a resource file (.src), including manual maintainance of control sizes and positions
• define the IDs for your dialog's elements in a separate .hrc file
• create a class definition for your dialog in yet another .hxx file
• create an initial class implementation in a .cxx file

All of this is laborious, cumbersome, and not really fun to do.

dialogdump is a Java tool which relieves you from some of those tasks, by dumping UNO dialogs to source code. This way, you can create your dialogs in the OpenOffice.org Dialog Editor (Tools / Macros / Organize Dialogs ...), and let dialogdump create all 4 files with initial content - ready to be compiled.