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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Which scripting language to use with KSpread?
From:       Terry <teaman () exemail ! com ! au>
Date:       2006-12-05 7:25:09
Message-ID: 45751ED5.1090408 () exemail ! com ! au
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Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> Terry wrote:
>   
>> Last year I spent several weeks converting my Lotus spreadsheets to
>> OpenOffice and the related scripting to StarBasic.  Since then, I've
>> wondered whether I should have taken the plunge and used Python instead,
>> although OpenOffice does not seem to cater well for Python scripting.
>>     
>
> OpenOffice provides PyUNO ( 
> http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html ) to use python. KSpread 
> supports also Python as well as Ruby ( see also http://kross.dipe.org ).
>  
>   
>> With Python, on the other hand, I would have a language that could
>> conceivably have other uses, whereas StarBasic is limited to OpenOffice
>> and StarOffice.
>>     
>
> Where I would just agree :)
>
>   
>> Does anyone have any thoughts on the relative merits of the choices
>> available for scripting for KSpread?
>>     
>
> KSpread 1.6.x supports scripting with Python and Ruby. The upcoming KSpread 
> 2.0 also supports Javascript.

Thanks for the reply and the links.

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