Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

[Bryan Quigley]

I believe it's just the ActiveX plugin which was designed to view
LibreOffice documents through IE.  Unfortunately, we did not have a
test case for other COM automation to confirm if that's the case.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> wrote:
> I think what he meant is that rewriting their ERP to another API to
> drive LibreOffice would be quite some work for them, and not gonna
> happen except if forced kicking and screaming.
>
> In principle, I like to support these kinds of universal (in this case
> "universal on a platform") APIs; are we deprecating / yanking only
> ActiveX or the whole COM Automation / OLE / ... bridge (insofar as
> these differ, I'm a bit lost in the Microsoft terminology)?
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 09:19:33PM +0100, Heiko Tietze wrote:
>> It would be much nicer to have a Pascal bridge rather than to support
>> the proprietary ActiveX protocol. Some references are on the
>> Freepascal wiki http://wiki.freepascal.org/Office_Automation
>>
>> 2017-01-23 15:42 GMT+01:00  <libroffice.dev at artavi.de>:
>> > We are recently switched from AOO to LO. In the release notes a possible
>> > removal of ActiveX is announced.
>> > You are asking for information about the use case so here we are:
>> >
>> > We are using in our company a selfmade ERP system which is grown for more
>> > than 15 years now. For historical reasons the system is written in Delphi.
>> > At the beginning MS Office was used as "office frontend", since about 10
>> > years OOo/AOO/LO. The main workflow is using calc for business calculation
>> > and writer as a kind of report tool. Most information from the main database
>> > is delivered via ActiveX to calc. After working in calc the information are
>> > read back and used to create documents in writer. The complete project and
>> > document management (and many more) is done by our ERP.
>> >
>> > I know there are others and probably more elegant ways and about once a year
>> > we are discussing to change that and finding the "big solution" - but this
>> > is a huge and expensive project.
>> >
>> > Removing ActiveX from LO will be a showstopper and nail us to the last
>> > supported release - or bring us back to AOO, who knows.
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > Joergen Pisarz
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