I am very reluctant to believe there is a macrom importer or exporter. I mean
programatically it would be very hard. Macros are a programming language with
reference to the windows infrastructure. So for example your macro will call
some MS component, how would you expect that to work using OpenOffice.org in
Linux for example, you would have to re-do also have the component.
I could see Novell experts just re-coding the macros to make it OOo friendly,
same way we would transform a doc template to a OOo template.
OOoBasic and VBA are different in the extend that OOoBasic is a very Java-like
approach the way they call on their internal components. Such as:
com.sun.star.frame.XDesktop
I know you won't see that on a VBA macro, that would for example look like this:
Private Sub cmdClose_Click()
' This Unloads the Address form and
' makes the address worksheet the
' active window.
Unload Me
Worksheets("Address Book").Activate
End Sub
Here the macro called the Worksheet, but on a OOo, the 'worksheet' component
might just be a whole diferent set of instructions.
Best thing I can ask for is to buy Andrew's Macros Book and read something and
start generating Add-Ons/Macros for OOo.
You can even get support at OOoForums.org, I think that's what novell did and
eventually got some of their old macros working.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish
http://es.openoffice.org/
Mensaje citado por Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Graham wrote:
> > Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 04:44, Sam Hiser wrote:
> ...
> >> Its my hope that when IBM buys Novell, a 3 year old rumor, it will
> >> immediately rewrite the books and start publishing better manuals.
> >
> > Heh ain't that the truth, however IBM and Novell are so buddy buddy
> > these days that it's hard to tell the difference. So the question is :
> > When "IBM Workplace " turns from vapour to reality will it turn up in
> > SuSE 10 or whatever comes next? And then when that happens will it be
> > suddenly discovered how much code that Novell developers have been
> > feeding into Workplace rather than into OOo.
>
> hmm. actually, i've heard rumours that novell has done many improvements
> to oo.org during their own migration (even automatic vba macro import
> and export was mentioned =) ), but none of these big changes made it
> back into oo.org.
>
> i would be glad if somebody could authoritatively deny these rumours :)
>
> maybe somebody could clarify about novell's involvement in the
> development of oo.org ? i really like direction novell is going lately
> and try to support them, but in that case i want to know that there is
> no "secret evil plan" going on =)
>
> > Just my conspiracy theory for this week! ;)
> ...
> > Cheers
> > Yo
> --
> Rich
>
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