Let's say we want to start at slide 54 right from the command line. Well all there is is $ loimpress -show #which starts at slide 1. Therefore please add $ loimpress -show 54 file.ppt capability etc. Operating System: Debian Version: 4.1.1.2 rc
would be a good idea to implement
Would be really useful in QA.
It certainly will not be straightforward to do this. The command line can fairly easily be parsed to get the result in desktop/source/app/cmdlineargs.cxx Then in desktop/source/app/dispatchwatcher.cxx it will need to be turned into something like a SID_PAGE_NUMBER. (Unfortunately, the current implementation of SlideshowImpl::createSlideList is expecting an exact match on the slide name, like "Slide 3", and not just a number.) At DrawDocShell::Load, the SID_DOC_STARTPRESENTATION causes mpDoc->SetStartWithPresentation( true ), so likely SdDrawDocument will need to be extended to also SetStartingPage(). This is the turning point, when we get to ViewShellBase::Notify which only has a SfxEventHintId::OpenDoc hint that only can check if IsStartWithPresentation and thus calls an option-less SID_PRESENTATION ShowSlideShow sees the SID_PRESENTATION and does a xPresentation->startWithArguments with a hard-coded FirstPage = 0 (which doesn't actually work like you would think, but only works because "0" is never found and thus it falls back to the first slide). So then, SID_PRESENTATION must be extended to accept a starting page, because otherwise every time ShowSlideShow is called it would start at the command-line-provided start page (if we made a GetDocument().GetStartingPage()).
proposed patch at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/167066
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/90eb9ea881a7497bb2ec348b3e4cba5aa5d51fa8 tdf#69192: add StartingSlide to SID_PRESENTATION and cmdline show= It will be available in 24.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Thanks, Justin. can you please explain how this works? I tried with sofice show=5. Also, could you change soffice --help to indicate that slide number can be used.
(In reply to Timur from comment #6) > could you change soffice --help to indicate that slide number can be used. I did. - "--show Opens and starts the following presentation documents \n" + "--show{=slide#} Opens and starts the following presentation documents \n" " of each immediately. Files are closed after the showing.\n" + " If a slide # is provided, they start at that slide. \n" > can you please explain how this works? I tried with sofice show=5. That isn't very helpful. I'll bet you didn't get a presentation started at all. First make sure that you can open a file in presentation mode, and after that works then try to start from a specific slide. If starting from that specified slide now fails, copy and paste exactly what you entered on the command line. Using OP's example, it would be "loimpress --show=54 file.ppt"
With fresh master build, when I type "soffice --help" I see "LibreOffice 7.6.6.3 60(Build:3)" not sure why. Down I see: --show Opens and starts the following presentation documents of each immediately. Files are closed after the showing. Files other than Impress documents are opened in default mode , regardless of previous mode. Somehow I do not see help and "sofice show=5 file.odp" does not work for me and it just displays help, although "sofice show file.odp" starts a presentation.
My mistake, I was running local installation. Works OK, thanks Justin once more. This could be in Release Notes, I add stragu. Similar to running full presentation, first is loaded and seen edit mode, then presentation with selected slide. That is a separate issue.