<quote who="Jeff Waugh"> > <quote who="Jasper Streit"> > > > I know someone who runs VB Macros in Excel under Windows. he wants to get > > into linux but doesn't want to learn a new language. I was just wondering > > if any of the spreadsheet programs under linux would allow him to use his > > VB code (as unmodded as possible). > > Not yet, however there is hope. Ximian's Mono will be able to run VB.NET > once it has a complete parser for VB, so that should mean that Gnumeric, > Abiword, and other office-oriented software will be able to run VB macros > (or at least the .NET variants, which will be in use more regularly as MS > releases new versions of Office).
>(There was an aborted attempt to do this called "GNOME >Basic" too, but it >has basically been forgotten given that Mono is a more robust and >useful >solution.) OpenOffice.org has some variant on basic that can be used for scripting purposes (StarBasic?). I had a look at the documentation for it once and found it a little bit 'deep' for my tastes. Started writing C for gnumeric instead, much easier for a beginner like myself. (Bias alert, I like using gnumeric a fair bit more than OOo calc.) http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=6&sid=c1dde40f27913daff140120c63e60a4a looks like it may be a useful starting point. http://framework.openoffice.org/proposals/macro/macrorecording.html apparently some examples (I've not tried them) http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=23 http://udk.openoffice.org/ & the OOo developers guide http://api.openoffice.org/ Out of interest, does anybody know the best way to write GUI based apps fast under Linux? There might be a bit of a market down that path over the next couple of years as a bunch of organisations migrate to Linux for all the right reasons, then realise they have a bunch of apps that have to be ported that are written in VB & VBA... Perl Tk? Tcl/Tk? Glade perl? Python Tk? XBasic? evem Kylix? (Not free, boo!) Anyone know anything about Qt's recent relase of a scripting language? (No kudos for anyone who suggests C & GTK+ :) I mean fast for an idiot like me, drag & drool if you will...) Cheers, Hal -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
