frame table ZOrder Kent Gibson private void renderTextFrame() { /* This snippet shows how to create a frame at an arbitrary location and ZOrder within a table. * The Parameter IsFollowingTextFlow ensures that the table "grows" * The XText does not neccessarily have to be from a table. * It also shows how to make the frame transparent * * */ XMultiServiceFactory documentFactory = null; XText currentXCellText = null; Integer x = new Integer( 20 ); Integer y = new Integer( 20 ); int width = 50; int height = 50; Integer ZOrder = new Integer( 1 ); try { Object writerShape = documentFactory.createInstance( "com.sun.star.text.TextFrame" ); XShape xWriterShape = ( XShape ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XShape.class, writerShape ); xWriterShape.setSize( new Size( width, height ) ); XTextContent xTextContentShape = ( XTextContent ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XTextContent.class, writerShape ); // does not support XFastPropertySet XPropertySet xTextContentPropertySet = ( XPropertySet ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPropertySet.class, xTextContentShape ); xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "FrameStyleName", "FrameStyle" ); xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "FrameIsAutomaticHeight", Boolean.TRUE ); xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "ZOrder", ZOrder ); xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "IsFollowingTextFlow", Boolean.TRUE ); xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "BackColor", new Integer( 0xffffffff ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$ xTextContentPropertySet.setPropertyValue( "BackColorTransparency", new Short( ( short ) 100 ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$ XPropertySet xShapeProps = ( XPropertySet ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPropertySet.class, writerShape ); // Setting the vertical position xShapeProps.setPropertyValue( "HoriOrientPosition", x ); xShapeProps.setPropertyValue( "VertOrientPosition", y ); // get the XText from the shape XText xShapeText = ( XText ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XText.class, writerShape ); currentXCellText.insertTextContent( this.currentXCellCursor, xTextContentShape, false ); xShapeText.setString( "SOME TEXT " ); } catch ( Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace(); } }