OOo Basic crash course: Creating a simple game using strings in a database
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 124.109.65.75]
on April 03, 2008 09:52 AM
This article is a good example of where MS office has an edge. A 10 year old can make a game with it, and I know this because I did (although dad helped). Office macros are for the intelligent, but not programming types.
DBContext=createUnoService("com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext")
^ Why is office playing uno? Sun? Why are they involved? Star? astronomy? These were my first thoughts when I tried to understand OOo macros, before I came to understand that OO was made by sun, and was an ugly extension of something called 'Sun StarOffice'. I never found out why the Uno card game is involved (I jest, I'm sure it isn't the same uno) - I started coding in C instead. And Python. Easy languages, that didn't have odd legacy items that needed dropping.
OOo needs an easier extension framework - lots of people have complaints, and in projects like Firefox, Linux (drivers), etc, the answer is modules and extensions. I still haven't heard of an OO extension/macro that can add a useful feature (eg, fill a spreadsheet selection with random numbers). I tried - the macro language was too much for me. Easier to work try with KOffice, which has a sensible (read: python) scripting interface by default.
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OOo Basic crash course: Creating a simple game using strings in a database
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 124.109.65.75] on April 03, 2008 09:52 AMDBContext=createUnoService("com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext")
^ Why is office playing uno? Sun? Why are they involved? Star? astronomy? These were my first thoughts when I tried to understand OOo macros, before I came to understand that OO was made by sun, and was an ugly extension of something called 'Sun StarOffice'. I never found out why the Uno card game is involved (I jest, I'm sure it isn't the same uno) - I started coding in C instead. And Python. Easy languages, that didn't have odd legacy items that needed dropping.
OOo needs an easier extension framework - lots of people have complaints, and in projects like Firefox, Linux (drivers), etc, the answer is modules and extensions. I still haven't heard of an OO extension/macro that can add a useful feature (eg, fill a spreadsheet selection with random numbers). I tried - the macro language was too much for me. Easier to work try with KOffice, which has a sensible (read: python) scripting interface by default.
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