Barrie Backhurst wrote:
Linux Format magazine(www.linuxformat.co.uk) has been running a tutorial
on OOo macros, written by Mark Bain. The 5th and final installment is
included in the latest issue(lxf84, October 2006), which I received last
week. The installment is titled "OOo Basic: Use VBA macros"
Apparently, the Suse 10.1 version of Openoffice includes VBA
compatability. According to the article, SUSE Openoffice will run
imported Excel macros and you can even write your own VBA code within
openoffice, by adding the parameter "Option VBASupport 1" to the start
of the module.
This is a good thing IMO but has this extra functionality been provided
to the main OOo code base, and any idea when it will be part of the
standard release?
Personally, I'd rather see Novell working through the official OOo
process rather than jumping ahead with mini-forks of the OOo project.
The last thing we need when advocating OOo is to have different
vendor-specific features rendering OOo documents incompatible across the
same application on different systems.
On a similar front, I notice that the Gnome-style icons contributed to
the standard OOo 2.0.x by Novell (and the default seen on Linux) still
have poor bit masking (seen when greyed out) even though Novell claim
that the code has provided but not yet integrated into the main OOo
base. We've seen at least 2 further production revisions of OOo in the
meantime. I haven't seen the Suse version of OOo, but I suspect the
icons don't have that problem there.
Ross
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