To respond to NoOp's comments: I have no part in BBA's marketing of CyberSlate. I am a writing teacher at the school who is currently pursuing a degree in Educational Technology, and I thought this summer would be a great opportunity to push the school to update its internal system out of the stone age. I just started looking into using OpenOffice because I thought it would be the quickest and cheapest way to upgrade our systems and because since it is open source, I thought that meant that it would be possible to manipulate the program just a bit so it would better suit our needs. As I've said, though, I'm not a programmer, and so maybe I'm completely wrong in thinking that this is even possible.
That said, if it IS possible to do what I have asked, I would certainly be more than willing to share the "tweaks" with the OOo community, but the fact is that what I am asking for is probably of very little use to anyone else. Who knows, though -- I could be wrong. There could be other tiny schools out there for students with learning disabilities or there could just be other people out there who have dyslexia and the like who would greatly appreciate the spellchecker tweak, for one. In any case, I'm not making a dime doing this, nor do I intend to if and when what I am looking for has been made. I'd love to design an app from scratch, but I'd also love the superpower to walk through walls, and that's not going to happen any time soon. I am volunteering to make these improvements happen in my school, and I am asking for help to make it all happen, but if what I am asking is sincerely impossible, then fine -- so be it. I'm not one to quit so easily, though, and I'm sure there's someone out there who knows what to do to help me out. Sincerely, Jeremy On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:03 AM, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ! > 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] > >
