Andreas Saeger wrote:
You are using Excel as application development platform. ...
And why not? So do I. Stable, customizable, automatically
cross-platform, and free.
* Menus and XML
All the menus (and toolbars) in OO.o are kept in XML files. Interfaces
are available to customize these to any desired degree. Considerable
recent work has made this easier, for the benefit of extensions.
* Extensions
You may want to investigate packaging your software as an extension.
That avoids license problems, and makes user installation very easy.
* Incompatibilities
The OO.o Basic language is nearly 100% compatible with other Basic
variants. It is the Application Program Interface (API) elements that
are only partly compatible. The underlying models of OO.o are not, and
never were intended to be, compatible with Microsoft. To some extent,
the API tries to bridge this gap.
* Further reading
I commend to your attention the wiki page of the Documentation Project:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation
where you will find links to the Developer's Guide and the Basic
Programmer's Guide. You may wish to investigate Category:Extensions on
the wiki, as well.
HTH
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/tj/
T. J. Frazier
Melbourne, FL
(TJFrazier on OO.o)
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