On 11/11/10 14:38, Martin Settle wrote:
I've pretty much stopped using it now, but a couple of years ago, while
still in Bridport, I had a bit of success with simple VB using Sun's version
of OpenOffice. This was generally embedded scripts in Excel documents that
I was opening in OpenOffice. There is a compatibility layer built into the
ooBasic script interpreter that OpenOffice uses, and I believe it was made
standard (and enabled by default) in one of the 2.x versions, and was always
built into the go-oo release.
I should say I haven't tried it with any really complex scripts, and
generally now anything I need a user interface or significant scripting for
I do elsewhere...
ooBasic is also very functional, and the syntax is very similar to VB, so it
wouldn't have a huge learning curve. Unfortunately, when I was trying to
use it the documentation seemed to expect that you were already an expert.
Marti
On 11 November 2010 02:02, Dan Dart<[email protected]> wrote:
Tried Gambas? It's a VB like language.
I too missed VB, but as it's so dead and not as powerful as FLOSS languages
(had a look at Qt Creator or pyGTK?) I wouldn't go back.
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I remember a Linux Format article on converting VB macros to Open
Office. I'll see if I can dig it out.
I have dabbled with Gambas connecting to MySQl - to test out ideas when
travelling - (on a Netbook) to incorporate into a suite being developed
at home (Gtk %C). It was as straightforward as I remember VB being.
See You
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