Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > Hi there, > > the threads relating to macro recording abilities of OOo are very > interesting. I have been somewhat puzzled about the conclusion that OOo > should *not* have a macro facility at all and that the existing ones > should be removed. The reason being that it would be "too much effort > for the expected benefit" (see below)! Of course Draw/Impress has a "macro facility" but not a "macro recorder" and nobody wants to remove this facility. I see that this is what you meant - but please let's be accurate, rumours spread faster than you can imagine and next week you can read somewhere that we are going to dump Basic macros in Draw. ;-)
(snip) > Just my 2 cents. I'm afraid that 2 cents won't be enough, but in case you could invest 20 million cents we could think about implementing the dispatch macro recorder in Draw/Impress and fixing the existing one in Calc and Writer. I doubt that it would be possible with less effort. There are still much more areas in OOo where this investment is placed a lot better. This is what "too much effort for the expected benefit" means. In the same time you can implement much more things that much more people need. But this simple recorder still isn't the "real" recorder that developers and development newbies want, they want a tool that teaches them the "real" OOo API (not the Dispatch API), not a simple automation tool. I have written a wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MacroRecorder that describes the situation. Please everybody interested in this read it, and read it completely before you reply. If something is unclear of if you think that something is wrong please let me know it. I hope that this will make clear where the problems are and why it would be such a huge effort to provide a "real" API macro recorder. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
