2008/12/31 Ian Carter <[email protected]> > I have recently installed OpenOffice 3 on Windows XP and am in the process > of porting templates across from MS Office. > > Most of these have some VBA, and some have a LOT! > > I've read and re-read whatever documentation I can find, but there seems to > be a lot of necessary information missing. > > E.g. In VBA, to access the contents of a form field in a Word document, one > would do something like:- > > bidValue - ActiveDocument.FormFields("BidValue").Result > > How would I do it in OpenOffice Basic? Is there a comprehensive, detailed > list of the objects in OpenOffice anywhere? > > Then there are events, most of the information of which is in the > documentation, except - what are the properties of the Event object for the > Text modified event of a TextBox? And is there a property or method to > cancel the event? > > > Is there no code completion at all in the Basic editor? I really miss that. > > Thanks for your attention, folks. >
Hello, Best look at some Base documentation (see website at documentation.openoffice.org) OpenOffice.org doesn't use VBA, so macros and such have to be translated. I'm not too knowing about these things, but this might help! -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.1 on a iMac Intel DualCore Leopard and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
