Hi all,
I'm still evaluating open office as the new solution for my parents
tax software, which has been built in excel with some vba scripts.
A lot of effort in this project has been put into cross-platform
compatibility (windows and os x). Not having real programming
knowledge VBA and excel seemed to be the right solution for my
parents: And it really works fine: the possibility to have the
spreadsheet functionality combined with the easy to learn VBA worked
quite long. But now mikrosoft has announced to cease support for VBA
and any automation on os x. So Excel won't be the 'development
platform' for my parents in the future and a new solution has to be
found.
I'd like to port their tax software to open office to be able to
develop with java (I'm still trying to get the sdk working with
eclipse as you can see in my other post..) But I won't have time for
porting it all and supporting them all the time. It would be
mandatory that my parents could script some basic solutions
themselves - and learning java is not a possibility of theirs..
now the nicest solutions for us all would be to doubleclick the .xls
file and run vba in open office, which surprisingly doesn't work ;)
Nevertheless I'd like to give it a try..
The explanations on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA
are somehow cryptic and the vba mailing lists far from being active.
What do you think? Are there any developers using VBA in Open Office?
Is VBA supported in openoffice for windows AND os x?
Should all be ported to some other scripting language?
thanks for your suggestions!
Simon
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