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PyAnyContainer for OpenOffice.org 
Version: 20051009

(C) Paolo Mantovani, 2005

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

(See the included file COPYING)

Abstract
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PyAnyContainer is an add-on package for OpenOffice.org 1.1 and above.
This package is addressed to StarBASIC developers

StarBASIC does not provide any built-in feature similar to VB/VBA 
collections.
The purpose of this package is not to supply an "emulation" of VBA 
collections, but to provide a concrete implementation of the same 
concept with the UNO fashion

The package provides two UNO services:

1. org.openoffice.comp.AnyNameContainer
2. org.openoffice.comp.AnyIndexContainer

the use is very simple and straightforward since the services are 
based on the same interfaces of many other containers that you can
find in the OpenOffice.org API 

Example:
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REM  *****  BASIC  *****

sub test
oAnyNameCont = createUnoService("org.openoffice.comp.AnyNameContainer")

For I = 0 To 1000
    oAnyNameCont.insertByName("key"& I, "element: " & I)
Next I

print oAnyNameCont.key539
print oAnyNameCont.getByName("key539")

oAnyNameCont.removeByName("key539")
end sub


Requirements
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In order to use PyAnyContainer, you must have OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 or above
installed. PyAnyContainer will not work with OpenOffice.org 1.0.*. 


Homepage
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Current versions of PyAnyContainer for OpenOffice.org are always available
here:

http://www.paolo-mantovani.org/

Contacting author
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Please send your suggestions and bug reports to 
Paolo Mantovani<paolomantovani@openoffice.org>. Any feedback is welcome!