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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 24 06:03:20 +0000 2008 ------- Hi macias, i can really understand your frustration about the matter - as you can see in issue 20046 i've tried to change things in the past - with no success at all. I've even written half a book containing all the shortcomings of the current "implementation" and presented it to the management (that was back in the days when OOo was moving from proprietary to free software). The problem is that too few people show interest in this functionality because even if the macro recorder would work, it still produces unreadable code. This is a drawback of the OOo design. Most people try to generate a code skeleton with the macro recorder and then want to edit the code to do certain things. When they look at the code they usually do the "jump out of the window thingy" and give up. So most people either do not use the recorder at all or have learned to program the office using the API. I haven't found anyone in the community willing to enhance the macro recorder because of the problematic implementation of the recording functionality. Instead the community opted for the addition of JavaScript, Python and BeanShell as supported programming languages. As for the menu entries being there at all, that is for the tick-mark on the feature list. StarOffice 5.x had a macro recorder. It was removed in StarOffice 6 and re-implemented in StarOffice 7/OpenOffice.org 1.x because there were people who wanted at least this limited functionality. Your point is 100% valid and i totally agree. But we're not going to change this anytime soon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
