Re: VBA - OOoBasic compatibility
Noel Power <[email protected]>
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Davide Dozza wrote: > Hi all, > > does anyone know if there is a document summarizing the compatibility > status between VBA and OOoBasic? not really sure what you are trying to really ask here, VBA and OOoBasic are both types of basic. In terms of syntax and language features they are pretty similar. The biggest difference is the document model. In VBA there is a rich easily discovered natural model and in OOoBasic there is... erm well the very fine grained non-intuitive Openoffice api. There is no definitive list of lanugage differences, but some info is available see [1][2]. Of course in ooo-build as you know imported macros ( e.g from an Excel document ) do run in a special compatability mode with attempts to fill the gap between OOoBasic and VBA both in terms of the available api and language capabilities. Anyway, please feel free to ask for more detail etc. [1] http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/VbaStarBasicXref.pdf [2] chapter 17 from http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Noel