Juergen Schmidt wrote:
On 1/4/10 10:04 PM, Andreas Saeger wrote:
Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Johnny,
Johnny Rosenberg wrote (04-01-10 18:08)
61277 seems to be the bug that I am talking about, so obviously there
is a bug report at least. Too bad that no one seems to care about
OpenOffice.org Basic anymore.
That is a rather generic statement.
And apart from that, I bet that it is not true that no one cares ;-)
Cor
It's a shame that OpenOffice.org is one of the very last reservations of
this awkward, mind boggling dinosaur language.
i also don't like Basic very much
Well, you are a programmer and you know what's wrong with it.
but it is widely used in the office world
So true ...
and easy to learn from many people.
I heavily disagree. It is extremely difficult, particularly because you
write strictly procedural code (createUnoListener, sigh) and because
Basic has its own set of complicated, partially depricated types which
need conversion all the time (Basic dates, currency, Empty, Null, Is
Nothing, multi-dimensional arrays). And this file access bug is not the
only one. Apropos type conversion:
print cDbl("1.234") , cDbl("1,234")
print cSng("1.234") , cSng("1,234")
We also support other
languages and our users can decide which one they prefer. The tooling,
the docu, the samples can be improved for all these languages. The same
is true for our API in many areas. We know that and we try to improve
things where we can. Volunteers are always welcome.
Well, actually I quit writing OOo Basic except for trivial template
related (embedded) API callers (With ThisComponent.NamedRanges...).
But let me ask you one question. Why do you use OpenOffice.org?
Everytime i read a posting from you it sounds more negative than
positive.
Pardon? I can not find any. Perhaps I filed a few issues too many?
OOoh, I see one about the worst Calc extension I've ever seen (input
form). Do you mean that one? Any valid points against my arguments why
this extension should be removed for quality assurance and to protect
user data?
Do you get money from somebody for doing it? ;-)
Oh, shit. You GOT ME!
If you don't
like things as they are and if you think you can do it better or can at
least help to do it better than please start and do something that help
us ;-)
Juergen
You can believe me, I do so since 2003. Mostly valid issues, templates,
add-ons, tons of macros Basic and Python (snippets in other languages as
well), thousands of postings in the forums.
Happy new year.
Andreas
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