Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Serious application development with LibreOffice and LibreOffice Basic

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.

--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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