In this example an added shape is removed after 2 seconds.
/* Retrieve the Desktop object, we need its XComponentLoader interface to load a new document */
oDesktop = UNO.createDesktop() -- get the UNO Desktop service object
xComponentLoader = oDesktop~{%see com.sun.star.frame.XDesktop%XDesktop}~{%see com.sun.star.frame.XComponentLoader%XComponentLoader} -- get componentLoader
-- interface
/* open the blank file */
url = "private:factory/sdraw"
xDrawComponent = xComponentLoader~loadComponentFromURL(url, "_blank", 0, -
.UNO~noProps)
/* need document's factory to be able to insert created objects*/
xDocumentFactory = xDrawComponent~{%see com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory%XMultiServiceFactory}
/* get draw page by index */
xDrawPage = xDrawComponent~{%see com.sun.star.drawing.XDrawPagesSupplier%XDrawPagesSupplier}~getDrawPages~getByIndex(0)~{%see com.sun.star.drawing.XDrawPage%XDrawPage}
xrectangle = xDocumentFactory~createInstance("{%see com.sun.star.drawing.RectangleShape}")~{%see com.sun.star.drawing.XShape%xshape}
xrectangle~setPosition(.bsf~new("{%see com.sun.star.awt.Point}", 1000, 1000))
xrectangle~setSize(.bsf~new("{%see com.sun.star.awt.Size}", 5000, 5000))
xDrawPage~add(xrectangle) -- add rectangle to the draw document
call syssleep 2
xDrawPage~remove(xrectangle) -- remove rectangle from the draw document
::requires UNO.cls -- get UNO support