OpenOffice
This will be rather short but an introduction of sorts. I have just had my eyes slashed (ala Un Chein Andalou), that is, I've just had cataracts removed from both eyes. And before Salvador Dali's movie images become too fixed in your brains, I should say that the process was prettymuch painless and Madison Street Surgery Center, Omni Eye Care, and 3D Vision in the Denver area have done an excellent job. Short form - my eyes do not take too well to prolonged work.....
So, I have found new inspiration for posting. One of my hobbies is statistics and statistical programming. I am programming a statistical spreadsheet document for my own use in OpenOffice Calc. It will be available with my statisics commentary on The Therian Timeline once I have finished the basic statistics procedures, but I would like to comment on the actual programming here along with comments about other open source programs, literature, and educational materials.
Like most programming documentation, programming help for OpenOffice Basic is given more on the basis of, you already know and just need a reminder. For new knowledge, you might geet help, and you might not. I was on the help forums for awhile but I busted some chops about people on the forum saying, "you shouldn't use the Calc spreadsheet for programming - it's a spreadsheet. Use the spreadsheet functions." They have a perfectly good programming language. Why disuade people from using it?! Pretty quickly, I could no longer post on the forum and my posts about how to do certain things in the programming language disappeared (by the way, I didn't call anyone a doody-head or anything like that - I just criticized the nay-sayers.)
But there are huge gaps in the help that's available for OpenOffice Basic. For instance, if you want to rotate a drawing object in Calc, there is supposedly a way but it is very occult and what little there is on the Internet about it is opaque and steel. Can you use paramarray in OpenOffice Calc. There are articles on the Internet that you can but I defy anyone to make it work and the official statement is, "No, you cannot."
Sigh.....
Honetsly, OpenOffice is aa great product and they deserve better than that, so I want to help. I will be posting chunks of my code on this forum (especially after I get my eyes working again) with explanations. Hopefully that will hep folks with some of the more difficult, but useful corners of the language. Also, my email is available in case someone wants to approach me directly with some programming problem.
Well, my left eye is screaming "STOP!!!" now so I will end this post.
So, I have found new inspiration for posting. One of my hobbies is statistics and statistical programming. I am programming a statistical spreadsheet document for my own use in OpenOffice Calc. It will be available with my statisics commentary on The Therian Timeline once I have finished the basic statistics procedures, but I would like to comment on the actual programming here along with comments about other open source programs, literature, and educational materials.
Like most programming documentation, programming help for OpenOffice Basic is given more on the basis of, you already know and just need a reminder. For new knowledge, you might geet help, and you might not. I was on the help forums for awhile but I busted some chops about people on the forum saying, "you shouldn't use the Calc spreadsheet for programming - it's a spreadsheet. Use the spreadsheet functions." They have a perfectly good programming language. Why disuade people from using it?! Pretty quickly, I could no longer post on the forum and my posts about how to do certain things in the programming language disappeared (by the way, I didn't call anyone a doody-head or anything like that - I just criticized the nay-sayers.)
But there are huge gaps in the help that's available for OpenOffice Basic. For instance, if you want to rotate a drawing object in Calc, there is supposedly a way but it is very occult and what little there is on the Internet about it is opaque and steel. Can you use paramarray in OpenOffice Calc. There are articles on the Internet that you can but I defy anyone to make it work and the official statement is, "No, you cannot."
Sigh.....
Honetsly, OpenOffice is aa great product and they deserve better than that, so I want to help. I will be posting chunks of my code on this forum (especially after I get my eyes working again) with explanations. Hopefully that will hep folks with some of the more difficult, but useful corners of the language. Also, my email is available in case someone wants to approach me directly with some programming problem.
Well, my left eye is screaming "STOP!!!" now so I will end this post.