Issue 100924 - Macro language simplification
Summary: Macro language simplification
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: scripting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: ab
QA Contact: issues@framework
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Reported: 2009-04-07 15:39 UTC by treknology
Modified: 2009-07-12 20:36 UTC (History)
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Description treknology 2009-04-07 15:39:08 UTC 
I am still downloading 3.0.1, but I have examined the Macro language on my 
Nephew's computer, and find it to be similar spaghetti code to MS VBA

I'm sure there are people who have gotten used to:

FormatFont .fontname.="Arial .fontize.=12 .bold.="ON" .Italic.="OFF" .Underline.
="" etc.

For those of us who learned programming the "old way", can we have a side-by-
side macro engine that copes with comma delineation.

FormatFont Arial, 12, B, i,,

In the same way as the first example makes the text Arial 12 Bold non-italic 
and leaves Underline untouched by the "" null, so my example performs exactly 
the same function, the Capital B turning on Bold, the small i turning Italic 
Off and the empty comma ignoring the Underline
Comment 1 ab 2009-04-20 14:17:52 UTC 
OOo Basic is designed to be VBA compatible. There are no plans
to change this. Besides OOo Basic you can also use all macro
languages supported by the Scripting Framework (currently Java,
Java Script, Bean Shell, Python) to script OOo.
-> WONTFIX
Comment 2 Mechtilde 2009-07-12 19:14:17 UTC 
wontfix -> closed
Comment 3 treknology 2009-07-12 20:36:07 UTC 
I did mean "side-by-side", not replacement.

Mic