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<snippet language="Java" application="Writer">

<keywords>
	<keyword>page number</keyword>
</keywords>

<authors>
	<author id="sw" initial="True" email="stephan.wunderlich@sun.com">Stefan Wunderlich</author>
	<author id="tomsontom" initial="False" email="tom.schindl@bestsolution.at">Tom Schindl</author>
</authors>

<question heading="Add Page number">
How do I add a page number to the header
I need to put page number in the footer of each page of a writer
document by using java UNO api. From now, I&apos;m able to set text into
the headerText, but I don&apos;t know how to get current page number and 
I need to put page number in the footer of each page of a writer
document by using java UNO api. From now, I&apos;m able to set text into 
the headerText, but I don&apos;t know how to get current page number and
total pages number.total pages number.
</question>

<answer>
<p>This should do the trick</p>
<listing>
XPropertySet xPropertySet = null;
try {
    // Turn on the header
    XStyleFamiliesSupplier xSupplier = (XStyleFamiliesSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XStyleFamiliesSupplier.class, xTextDoc);

    XNameAccess xNameAccess = xSupplier.getStyleFamilies();
    XNameContainer xStyleCollection = (XNameContainer) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XNameContainer.class, xNameAccess.getByName(&quot;PageStyles&quot;) );
    xPropertySet = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPropertySet.class, xStyleCollection.getByName(&quot;Standard&quot;) );
    xPropertySet.setPropertyValue(&quot;HeaderIsOn&quot;, new Boolean(true) );

    // Fill in the text
    XText headerText = (XText) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XText.class, xPropertySet.getPropertyValue(&quot;HeaderText&quot;) );
    XTextCursor headerCursor = headerText.createTextCursor();
    
    XMultiServiceFactory xDocMSF = (XMultiServiceFactory) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XMultiServiceFactory.class, xTextDoc );
    
    Object pageCount = xDocMSF.createInstance( &quot;com.sun.star.text.TextField.PageCount&quot; );
    XTextContent pageCountTC = (XTextContent) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XTextContent.class, pageCount );
    XPropertySet pageCountPS = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPropertySet.class, pageCount );
    pageCountPS.setPropertyValue( &quot;NumberingType&quot;, new Short(com.sun.star.style.NumberingType.ARABIC) );
    headerText.insertTextContent( headerCursor, pageCountTC, true );
} catch (Exception e) {
    // error handling
}

</listing>
</answer>

<changelog>
	<change author-id="tomsontom" date="2004-09-06">Initial version (summed up from mailling list)</change>
</changelog>

</snippet>