Re: [Dorset] Use of Visual Basic

2010-11-11 Thread Charles B. Upton
On 11/11/10 14:14, Charles B. Upton wrote: 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 d

Re: [Dorset] Use of Visual Basic

2010-11-11 Thread Charles B. Upton
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. Th

Re: [Dorset] Use of Visual Basic

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Settle
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 th

Re: [Dorset] Use of Visual Basic

2010-11-10 Thread Dan Dart
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. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.

Re: [Dorset] Use of Visual Basic

2010-11-10 Thread StarLion
On 10 November 2010 23:38, C A Wills wrote: > Just been asked a question:- can you use VB in Linux? > I said I did not know but thought you might but may have to via Wine. > Anyone know the correct answer please? > I'm trying to get him to switch to full time Linux (ex Windows user from > Windows

[Dorset] Use of Visual Basic

2010-11-10 Thread C A Wills
Just been asked a question:- can you use VB in Linux? I said I did not know but thought you might but may have to via Wine. Anyone know the correct answer please? I'm trying to get him to switch to full time Linux (ex Windows user from Windows via DOS and Lotus Notes). Clive -- Next meeting: