today it works fine. I simply did the same like tommorow many times ( close the X11 standardly, and Force Quit the OO). After new starting of OO it start to work with menu inside Application window.

Thanx and bye.

p.s. I am former windows c++ developer which decided switch to MAC for the rest of the life…

Alternatively go to and use the Aqua version, which is more up to date, and more importantly is more Mac like.

i changed the script (/Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.scpt) according instructions. Then i tried to start OpenOffice from Finder/Application folder. X11 and as well OpenOffice are displayed among running aplication. But OO menu consist just from 3 menues (OpenOffice.org, File,Edit) and exept Edit Script all submenues are dimmed and I cant open new document or create new.

Tomas

You saved my day with this script change! my wife was so angry about me (yeah, as if i did something to her pc…) it took me half a night to get to your blog, but now it works, so:

thank you very much!

yours,

rob from vienna (if you ever come here, write me an email)

on getOOInstallPath()
return (((path to me) as string) & “Contents:”)
end getOOInstallPath

on getOOResourcesPath()
return (((path to me) as string) & “Contents:Resources:”)
end getOOResourcesPath

on getOOProgramPath()
return (getOOInstallPath() & “MacOS:”)
end getOOProgramPath

on getScriptPath()
– set this to absolute path when debugging
return (((path to me) as string) & “Contents:Resources:Scripts:”)
end getScriptPath

on getOOUserSettingsPath()
return (((path to home folder) as string) & “Library:Application Support:OpenOffice.org:2:”)
end getOOUserSettingsPath

on getOOUserFontPath()
return (getOOUserSettingsPath() & “user:fonts:”)
end getOOUserFontPath

on getUserLogsPath()
return (((path to home folder) as string) & “Library:Logs:”)
end getUserLogsPath

on shellTerminator()
return (” &>/dev/null & echo $!”) as string
end shellTerminator

–
– the default handlers: run, open, idle, quit
–

on run
if (preRun()) then
logEvent(“(Scripts/main) Running OpenOffice.org”)
openSoffice(“-”)
end if
end run

on open (theFiles)
if (preRun()) then
openFiles(theFiles)
end if
end open

on idle
– close icon only if ooo has terminated
if (hasOOoQuit()) then
tell me to quit
end if
– check all x seconds if ok to quit
return 3
end idle

on quit
if (hasOOoQuit()) then
continue quit
end if
end quit

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on preRun()

– Check for the required version of Mac OS X
if (atLeastOSXVersion(10, 5, 0)) then
— if we have leopard, we don’t need to manually start the X server first
set theCmd to “sh ” & (quoted form of (POSIX path of getOOProgramPath() & “soffice”)) & ” ”
do shell script theCmd & aFile & shellTerminator()
else
startXServer()
if (theDisplay is equal to “error”) then
return
end if
set theEnv to “DISPLAY=” & theDisplay & ” ; export DISPLAY; ”
set theCmd to “sh ” & (quoted form of (POSIX path of getOOProgramPath() & “soffice”)) & ” ”
do shell script theEnv & theCmd & aFile & shellTerminator()
— logEvent(“open CMD: ” & theEnv & theCmd & aFile)
end if
end opensoffice

– Check for that OOo can be found
if (not isRealPath(getOOProgramPath())) then
display dialog getMessage(“ERROR_OOO_NOT_FOUND”)
return false
end if

if (not isRealPath(getOOUserFontPath())) then
set createUserFont to “mkdir -p ” & (quoted form of POSIX path of getOOUserFontPath()) & “; ”
do shell script createUserFont
end if

– If no crash occured before, ~/Library/Logs does not exist, and OpenOffice.org cannot be started
if (not isRealPath(getUserLogsPath())) then
set createUserLogsPath to “mkdir -p ” & (quoted form of POSIX path of getUserLogsPath()) & “; ”
do shell script createUserLogsPath
end if

this did not fix it please send by email the complete script if posible

Cheers John Lang

it absolutely works. Thanks a lot …