Issue 76353 - css.table.XTableColumns.getByIndex broken
Summary: css.table.XTableColumns.getByIndex broken
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: App Dev
Classification: Unclassified
Component: api (show other issues)
Version: 3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 Trivial
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Reported: 2007-04-13 21:36 UTC by ms7777
Modified: 2013-02-24 21:09 UTC (History)
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Description ms7777 2007-04-13 21:36:14 UTC 
It is impossible to acces by code the columns of a text table, although 
getByIndex should be supported. The getByIndex call does not show an error, but 
simply returns a null object. Thus it is impossible to e.g. modify column width 
by code.

Run this in an empty writer document:

Sub Main
xText = ThisComponent.Text
xTextTable = ThisComponent.createInstance("com.sun.star.text.TextTable") 
xTextTable.initialize(4, 4) 

xCursor = xText.createTextCursor
xText.insertTextContent(xCursor, xTextTable, False) 

xTableColumns = xTextTable.getColumns() 
xTableColumn = xTableColumns.getByIndex(0)
msgbox IsNull(xTableColumn)
End Sub
Comment 1 kpalagin 2007-04-16 14:47:12 UTC 
Confirming with 2.2m7 on WinXP - IsNull(xTableColumn) returns True.
Comment 2 jsc 2007-04-25 14:17:46 UTC 
your snippet is correct but the problem is that columns are not supported
objects in text tables. The used interface doesn't reflect this because it is to
generic. You can say that it is a bad design and i would tend to agree but
anyway, getByIndex returns always a null interface in the context of XTableColumns

This is an invalid issue and it can't be fixed. But of course it should be
reflected in the documentation -> change subcomponent to documentation
Comment 3 ms7777 2007-04-25 21:58:16 UTC 
I can live with that ...
Comment 4 jsc 2008-05-20 14:58:33 UTC 
jsc -> tl: i think we should extend the docu, what do you think? You are the
expert of the writer API here and i would like to ask you if you can insert a
note in the IDL docu if you think that make sense. Otherwise close the issue.
Comment 5 Mathias_Bauer 2008-06-09 11:29:42 UTC 
target 3.x