Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-23 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-09-23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 4d76a2ad-bf85-472e-8c63-ef16f320a...@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com, flebber wrote: Has anyone had much success with python macro's. Or developing powerful macro's in an language? I did an application for

Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-23 Thread Boris Borcic
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: flebber wrote: Has anyone had much success with python macro's. Or developing powerful macro's in an language? I did an application for my own use recently, involving automatically generating invoices in editable OOWriter format from my billing database. I gave up

Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-23 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message i7eqb3$tg...@speranza.aioe.org, Tim Harig wrote: The UNO architecture seems to have been rather mishandled. While the general idea was nice, the implementation seems to be overly complicated and poorly documented. For an example of a much nicer way of doing things, compare the

Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-23 Thread John Pinner
On Sep 23, 10:12 am, Boris Borcic bbor...@gmail.com wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: flebber wrote: Has anyone had much success with python macro's. Or developing powerful macro's in an language? I did an application for my own use recently, involving automatically generating

Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-22 Thread flebber
I have recently been looking at openoffice because I saw it had support to use python Macro's. I thought this would provide OOo with a great advantage a fully powerful high level language as compared to VBA in Excel. I have found few docs on the subject.

Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-22 Thread flebber
On Sep 23, 10:41 am, flebber flebber.c...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently been looking at openoffice because I saw it had support to use python Macro's. I thought this would provide OOo with a great advantage a fully powerful high level language as compared to VBA in Excel. I have found few

Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message 4d76a2ad-bf85-472e-8c63-ef16f320a...@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com, flebber wrote: Has anyone had much success with python macro's. Or developing powerful macro's in an language? I did an application for my own use recently, involving automatically generating invoices in editable