On 05/02/2013 12:47 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
I seriously doubt that using LO Basic, you would be able to attain a
similar goal in any meaningful timeframe and with decent performance.
However, using another language via one of the UNO bindings might be a
more viable (if somewhat daunting) project.
If you use another language, then you have full access to everything
that it offers.
The documentation for LibreOffice Basic seems very space compared to MS
VBA.
That's because it is. Documentation on UNO and Basic comes down to the
built-in help and anything you can find with regard to the
OpenOffice.org project, the current API documentation produced by the LO
project, and old Sun StarOffice documents (if they are still around).
VBA has a whole ecosystem and 20-odd years worth of product pushing
around it by people paid to push the platform forward. Although UNO has
been around since the days of StarOffice, it has never had that
commercial "acceptance".
Look at UNO, look at the language bindings, decide which is the most
appropriate for what you want to do :
http://api.libreoffice.org/
http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/sdb/module-ix.html
http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/sdbc/module-ix.html
http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/sdbcx/module-ix.html
http://www.openoffice.org/udk/
I usually check the online API docs (as shown above), inspecting the
objects, and I have even bothered to dive into the source code when I
was totally befuddled.
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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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