OpenOffice:I'm a designer. Over the course of 40+ years, I've developed over 100 games. Therefore, I love to create graphics, procedures and models. Because I'm strapped for cash, I've adapted several existing products to accomplish my goal. Among them: PowerPoint, Excel, AutoCad and Blender. (The MS products simply because they came with my computer. I used AutoCad on a previous job. And I'm still learning Blender, which is also free.)
- With PPT, I can rather precisely create graphics that move and change programmatically. - Excel allows me to simulate the scoring process as well as some graphic renditions. - However, PPT won't always accept Excel VBA coding. And vice versa. - Furthermore, I can precisely align a 'shape' in PPT via Format/Properties. - But, Excel Format/Properties has nothing to do with 'shape' alignment. - PPT Animation allows for 'duration' of movement of a 'shape'. - But, Excel coding executes a transition 'immediately' No flow of motion. - And with PPT, since the coordinates of a shape are precisely aligned, why not set 'Origin' and 'Destination' coordinates and then, the 'Path' could be shaped as desired. I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. For the ease which Calc, Impress, Draw and Math operates, I believe a hybrid mashup of these programs would solve these problems and many more. Total cross-platform compatibility. You could call it 'Complete'. Anyway, I hope you take my challenge seriously. Michael R. Choateinventive ideas ink
