DCOP Resources

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A simple example of using DCOP with kword

Set this to the PID of a running kword, or use e.g. appid=`dcopstart kword foo.kwd`

appid=kword-14966

Get main text frameset

fs=$(dcopobject "`dcop $appid Document-0 textFrameSet 0`")

Start editing it

edit=$(dcopobject "`dcop $appid "$fs" startEditing`")

Now you can insert text

dcop $appid $edit insertText 'Hello world!'

Use this to create new paragraphs (only available from KOffice version 1.3.2 upwards)

dcop $appid $edit newParagraph

See "dcop kword-$pid $edit" for more (e.g. setBold true, moving the cursor, etc.)