On 06/28/2010 10:17 AM, Jeremy Yanofsky @ Ben Bronz Academy wrote: ... > Still, I'm not here to cry for help and then sit back and let someone do all > the magic for me. I want to collaborate, and I want to help make this > happen in whatever way I can. I could videotape myself using the school's > ancient CritiWriter utility if you think that might help. Or, I can do my > best to persuade the former headmaster to provide me with the code that > CritiWriter runs on so that you or whoever else can help can use that as a > reference, although I don't know if that would *really *be of any help since > it* is *in DOS, which much be dinosaur coding by now. > > Let's do this! > Jeremy
Hmmm... forgive me for being presumptuous, but doesn't the Ben Bronz Academy aka learningincentive.com _sell/license_ it's software/programs (CyberSlate, Keyboard Classroom, and the like)? Regardless of the fact that your organization sells/licenses it's software (at rather high prices IMO), I think that what you are asking is that someone take OOo and custom tailor it for your organization (for free) in a way that it is not intended. Of course you (or someone) could spend considerable time writing macros, code etc., to somewhat accomplish what you are asking for, but what then? How would you maintain it? When you resell it do you plan to provide licensing revenue to the contributors, or would it be released as opensource code so that others may use it for free as well? OOo has approximately 30,000 source files and approximately 9 million lines of code (http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html#source). But is opensource, therefore you, or someone that you hire, could indeed modify it to do what you are asking. Personally, I'd recommend building an application from scratch. Certainly if the original application was written in DOS (most likely BASIC), the the task would be less daunting that "tweaking" OOo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
