Hi Craig,

> I have several spreadsheet documents that need to access a common set of 
> staroffice basic macro routines that cannot be in a user application 
> specific location (i.e. they cannot be in a user specific 'My Macros' library)
> 
> I would like to be able to have the above mentioned spreadsheet documents 
> simply load a 'module' file (e.g. common_macros.bas) of staroffice basic 
> macros and then be able to call routines from the loaded set of macros from 
> within macros in the spreadsheet documents.
> 
> Is this possible using staroffice basic?

Never tried it myself (not exactly *this* scenario, that is), but I
think it should be possible.

The Basic libraries are themselves accessible in UNO: There should be a
"BasicLibraries" property at both "ThisComponent" (for the document) and
"GlobalScope" (for application-wider Basic).

You could create a new module within the Basic libs, and load your
common_macros.bas into it from a central location.

Something like
  oCommonLib = GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.creatLibrary( "unique_name" )
  sModuleContent = ... ' load common_macros.bas from somewhere
  oCommonLib.insertByName( "module_name", sModuleContent )

Of course, you need to add some sugar: How to handle the case the
library/module is already there? How to handle updates (i.e. you need
versioning for the common_macros.bas file), and the like.

Ciao
Frank

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