Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
Sweet Coffee wrote: > Does OOoBasic have the security problems alluded to VB in this thread?? *Every* basic macro is a security problem per se, because it always has full access to the system. There is no difference here between VB and OOo Basic. Knowing this it should be clear that avoiding sec

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
Jacob Floyd wrote: > I think that someone could write an UNO Bridge to allow use of VB. This does already exist. You can script OOo with VB, but of course you still have to use the OOo Object Model. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Plea

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I ca;t answer that question since I am not sure if you mean a security hole on the lanaguge or on OpenOffice.org. OOo configurations usually have security features to disable macros. Read about it on Tools > Configuration. But a security expert most run a test on both language and determing which

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-28 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hi Alexandro! Does OOoBasic have the security problems alluded to VB in this thread?? SC On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:02:38 +0300, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure how will this help exactly, you realize VB is not a real language. I > mean is Basic attached with the Win32 libra

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Not sure how will this help exactly, you realize VB is not a real language. I mean is Basic attached with the Win32 libraries and components while the UNO has the own OOo libraries. VBA on the other side is more like a scripting language since is not oriented to win32 specific components. On the

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-27 Thread Jacob Floyd
I think that someone could write an UNO Bridge to allow use of VB. Jacob On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:23:22 -0500, Sweet Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > A the webmaster for a site called "Teachers-Pet.org " is interested in > writing some educational software for OO. Presentl

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-25 Thread Ian Laurenson
As others have stated OpenOffice.org does have the equivalent of VBA in the form of OpenOffice.org Basic, in fact the syntax for the language is virtually identical. However, the underlying model for OpenOffice.org and Microsoft office are quite different and so the macros would require manual conv

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Peter Kupfer wrote: > To my knowledge, OOo does not support VB. This is because VB is > dangerous. I don't really understand why all of the time, but that is > what someone smarter than me would tell you. However, OOo does support OpenBasic (aka StarBasic), Python, Java, Javascript, Beanshell,

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Kupfer
Sweet Coffee wrote: Hello Everyone! A the webmaster for a site called "Teachers-Pet.org" is interested in writing some educational software for OO. Presently he writes software for MSWord. His software is "free". He indicated that the reason why he has not written software for OO as of yet is be

[discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-25 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hello Everyone! A the webmaster for a site called "Teachers-Pet.org" is interested in writing some educational software for OO. Presently he writes software for MSWord. His software is "free". He indicated that the reason why he has not written software for OO as of yet is because OO does not p