Ryan Jendoubi wrote: > LO macros would definitely be a good skill to learn eventually, even if it's > not at the top of my todo list at the moment. I haven't yet searched for any > tutorials or the like, but I'd be interested to hear if you have any > personal favourites which you think would suit someone who knows general > programming and just needs an intro to the syntax, conventions and > frameworks / objects involved in LO scripting. > > That said, I've noticed there are at least four different languages one can > use. I don't know if any of them would allow writing scripts which are > broadly cross-compatible with other office suites (even if a little tweaking > is needed) but my preference would be for that, so I could help non-LO-using > friends and such.
The "standard" scripting language used in LO is StarBasic (as far as I know), which is very much like VBA (visual basic for applications). I actually learned the language while writing VBA macros in MS Excel. Unfortunately I don't know of a good manual/tutorial for either. I personally dislike the Basic language, but it is useful sometimes. I'm not enthusiastic about it, but I think sticking to Basic would be the more "cross-compatible". I've imported a few Excel files into LO, and the VBA macros imported just fine (minor modifications are done to the code when imported). I have no idea about the other direction though (LO file to Excel). Regards Stephan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
