+1, since I was searching for such a place for a macro when writing my last blog (http://blogs.sun.com/malte/entry/a_favorites_menu_in_staroffice) :) I searched for some time, since I couldn't believe that such a place didn't exist...
Malte. Juergen Schmidt wrote, On 08/17/07 10:59: > Hi, > > with our codesnippets.services.openoffice.org we have useful resource to > find some useful snippets. But the contribution is from my point of view > not easy enough. Although Tom Schindl did a tremendous job to set up the > environment and infra structure and Paolo Mantovani who provides the > excellent Snippet Creator i would like to suggest that we move the > examples, snippets etc. into the wiki. > > Why? > Because i believe that it is too much work for potential contributors to > install the Snippet Creator, prepare a snippet/example, post it to the > mailing list and wait until Tom has found time to integrate it. And > later on the maintenance requires the same or more steps if you have not > stored the snippet locally on your machine. I believe that all this > prevents users to contribute to our example collection. > > For that reason i have created a new section in the Wiki > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Samples and > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Samples where i would like > to store new snippets, examples, tutorials related to different API use > cases and different programming languages. > > I've prepared some guideline or better some rules that should be taken > into account when contributing to the example collection. > > The advantage of the wiki is quite obvious and i hope that you share and > like the idea and that you contribute a lot of good examples to this > collection. The contribution and maintenance in the wiki is easy and > offers some more flexibility than the existing snippet page. > > I would like to thank you Tom and Paolo again for their good work. Time > and technology is changing and i believe that we will have greater > success with the wiki approach. And of course the Snippet Creator is an > excellent example to show what's possible with StarBasic. > > Stay tuned to find some nice tutorials in the near future. > > Juergen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
