[libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux
Am 14.10.2012 21:08, chaonis wrote: I am trying to write scripts accessing the system files, such as /dev/ttyS0. If I use Open I got the error Device I/O error message. Are there any special function call needed to be done for the system files? User permission is good as I can access to the file using any other Linux commands. You have so many programming languages availlable. Why StarBasic? StarBasic is the most primitive API-caller. It is almost useless for anything outside the UNO scope. (Apart from that, it is the worst implementation of an extinct language). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux
Hi :) What are 'the best' languages to choose? Python and/or C++? or something else? I know 'the best' is a bit subject to personal feelings and knowledge and experience but it would be interesting to hear people's opinions. From what i can gather Python and C++ are teh best although mainstream seems to rate Java more highly and it appears in job ads more often. On the other hand when jobs ask for C++ the pay-grade is far higher. I got as far as Speccy Basic, a little pascal and some machine code but i think that's all s far behind me that i doubt i could write much even in those languages now (machine code was a tfn and only ever worked on the specific machine i wrote for (at best)). Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 15/10/12, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 7:17 Am 14.10.2012 21:08, chaonis wrote: I am trying to write scripts accessing the system files, such as /dev/ttyS0. If I use Open I got the error Device I/O error message. Are there any special function call needed to be done for the system files? User permission is good as I can access to the file using any other Linux commands. You have so many programming languages availlable. Why StarBasic? StarBasic is the most primitive API-caller. It is almost useless for anything outside the UNO scope. (Apart from that, it is the worst implementation of an extinct language). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux
Hi, if you drop Basic as a makro language in writer, you will drop me as a makro user, and maybe even as a LO user. It gives me the freedom to automatize much of my daily tasks without learning another high level language. And when I want to use GNU/Linux system functions I use extensiveley the shell comand, i.e. dir() is quite slow, but calling a shell script with an elaborate find command does the task very quick. or: use sed to run through the odt's looking up the print date or ... Maybe it might helt with /dev/.. too. Walther Although sometimes Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 schrieb Tom Davies: Hi :) What are 'the best' languages to choose? Python and/or C++? or something else? I know 'the best' is a bit subject to personal feelings and knowledge and experience but it would be interesting to hear people's opinions. From what i can gather Python and C++ are teh best although mainstream seems to rate Java more highly and it appears in job ads more often. On the other hand when jobs ask for C++ the pay-grade is far higher. I got as far as Speccy Basic, a little pascal and some machine code but i think that's all s far behind me that i doubt i could write much even in those languages now (machine code was a tfn and only ever worked on the specific machine i wrote for (at best)). Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 15/10/12, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 7:17 Am 14.10.2012 21:08, chaonis wrote: I am trying to write scripts accessing the system files, such as /dev/ttyS0. If I use Open I got the error Device I/O error message. Are there any special function call needed to be done for the system files? User permission is good as I can access to the file using any other Linux commands. You have so many programming languages availlable. Why StarBasic? StarBasic is the most primitive API-caller. It is almost useless for anything outside the UNO scope. (Apart from that, it is the worst implementation of an extinct language). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux Date: Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Hi, if you drop Basic as a makro language in writer, you will drop me as a makro user, and maybe even as a LO user. It gives me the freedom to automatize much of my daily tasks without learning another high level language. And when I want to use GNU/Linux system functions I use extensiveley the shell comand, i.e. dir() is quite slow, but calling a shell script with an elaborate find command does the task very quick. or: use sed to run through the odt's looking up the print date or ... Maybe it might helt with /dev/.. too. Walther Although sometimes Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 schrieb Tom Davies: Hi :) What are 'the best' languages to choose? Python and/or C++? or something else? I know 'the best' is a bit subject to personal feelings and knowledge and experience but it would be interesting to hear people's opinions. From what i can gather Python and C++ are teh best although mainstream seems to rate Java more highly and it appears in job ads more often. On the other hand when jobs ask for C++ the pay-grade is far higher. I got as far as Speccy Basic, a little pascal and some machine code but i think that's all s far behind me that i doubt i could write much even in those languages now (machine code was a tfn and only ever worked on the specific machine i wrote for (at best)). Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 15/10/12, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 7:17 Am 14.10.2012 21:08, chaonis wrote: I am trying to write scripts accessing the system files, such as /dev/ttyS0. If I use Open I got the error Device I/O error message. Are there any special function call needed to be done for the system files? User permission is good as I can access to the file using any other Linux commands. You have so many programming languages availlable. Why StarBasic? StarBasic is the most primitive API-caller. It is almost useless for anything outside the UNO scope. (Apart from that, it is the worst implementation of an extinct language). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted --- -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux
Hi :) No-one is suggesting dropping Star Basic! That would be a huge nightmare for many people i'm sure. I was just curious what might be better. A quick look at what languages can be used for macros in LO reveals 4 choices; LO Basic, Python, BeanShell, or JavaScript. I was just wondering which was 'best'. Are all 4 really well implemented in LO? I guess LO Basic is the Star Basic being referred to in this thread? I think Andreas was just suggesting that choosing to use Star Basic is not the best choice. However one of the great things about OpenSource is that you do get choices. We can all disagree about almost everything and still end up co-operating with each other even if we didn't want to. Outside of IT choice is usually seen as a good thing. Many countries see democracy as good and ostensibly give a choice of who you can vote for to rule. In shops people would be outraged if there was nothing else to buy except baked beans. People expect to be able to buy a wide range of diferent products from different companies and for it all to work together well enough. Somehow IT seems to demand dictatorships and freedom FROM choice rather than freedom OF choice. We don't all do the same things and even if we did we probably wouldn't do them the same way so it's fairly insane to expect 1 product and 1 company to be the only thing worth using. I was just curious about other people's choices to help me understand more about a subject i know little about. Regards from Tom :) From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 11:43 Subject: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux Date: Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Hi, if you drop Basic as a makro language in writer, you will drop me as a makro user, and maybe even as a LO user. It gives me the freedom to automatize much of my daily tasks without learning another high level language. And when I want to use GNU/Linux system functions I use extensiveley the shell comand, i.e. dir() is quite slow, but calling a shell script with an elaborate find command does the task very quick. or: use sed to run through the odt's looking up the print date or ... Maybe it might helt with /dev/.. too. Walther Although sometimes Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 schrieb Tom Davies: Hi :) What are 'the best' languages to choose? Python and/or C++? or something else? I know 'the best' is a bit subject to personal feelings and knowledge and experience but it would be interesting to hear people's opinions. From what i can gather Python and C++ are teh best although mainstream seems to rate Java more highly and it appears in job ads more often. On the other hand when jobs ask for C++ the pay-grade is far higher. I got as far as Speccy Basic, a little pascal and some machine code but i think that's all s far behind me that i doubt i could write much even in those languages now (machine code was a tfn and only ever worked on the specific machine i wrote for (at best)). Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 15/10/12, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 7:17 Am 14.10.2012 21:08, chaonis wrote: I am trying to write scripts accessing the system files, such as /dev/ttyS0. If I use Open I got the error Device I/O error message. Are there any special function call needed to be done for the system files? User permission is good as I can access to the file using any other Linux commands. You have so many programming languages availlable. Why StarBasic? StarBasic is the most primitive API-caller. It is almost useless for anything outside the UNO scope. (Apart from that, it is the worst implementation of an extinct language). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system files, like /dev/null in Linux
I can work with any distro too, as long as it is proven doable in Linux . The LibreOffice version I am using is 3.5. But again, can use any other version. Thanks for the advise about posting to other forums. I am hoping Google Spider will carry this message to someone who knows the answer. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/BASIC-script-how-to-read-write-system-files-like-dev-null-in-Linux-tp4013296p4013352.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
