wow..I just found a goldmine. If you have installed OOo SDK in your linux (Ubuntu/Linux Mint/…), check this folder..there are a ton of useful learning materials for OOo development. /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/sdk

I downloaded the whole source codes from openoffice.org and was just about to read the guide on how to build it. Just downloading the compressed source and extracting them took about 3 hours. I could not compile the source because there were some dependency problems. I went to openoffice IRC. (http://webchat.freenode.net/ , channel: openoffice). There someone suggested me to try netbeans with OpenOffice api plugin and OpenOffice SDK). After some fiddling around, I think I finally got everything set. Now I think I can use netbeans to create OpenOffice extension (check the last pic below). There is tutorial on OpenOffice website on how to setup the netbeans to work with this. But it was missing some information specific to any Linux distribution. I am using Linux Mint which i think is basically Ubuntu. [Read more…]