[ooo-build] VBA - OOoBasic compatibility

[Noel Power]

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