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Kokodak

I'm searching for book - manual - user guide for openoffice basic. I found just one in Amazon, but I can't see it inside and I can't see if is this book good for me. I need something for begginers. With simply explanation for sintax and all comands used in it.

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Ponny

Hi and Welcome to the forum.

Have you reviewed the free stuff first? OpenOffice.org 3 User Guides.

Edit: Doh - just realised you mean the BASIC language and not 'basic usage of OOo'.

And r4zoli beat me to it...

Yes, I need manual for Basic language for macros in openoffice.
Yes I have reviewed "OpenOffice.org 3 User Guides".
But I want something in real book - in material form.

In net user guides I can't find this: Function for storing selection into a variable. In microsoft word 6 wordbasic, this function is "Selection$()". Whole line is then: "a$ = Selection$()".

mijav


Ponny

But I want something in real book - in material form.

If you carefully check Basic Guide wiki page you can find a link to PDF version and if you print it out, book is ready.

Another source what yuo can use for programing OOo the OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide

I think that Andrew Pitonyak's book might be what you are looking for. He has a web site with a long PDF document (PDF English Macro Document) that will give you a good idea of his style. The OOoBasic language is pretty simple and well explained in the guide you already have. The API used to interact with documents is far more difficult and I think it is that you want to understand. For example, to get the text of a single selected region in a Writer document, you can use this code:
That doesn't really use any Basic function other than assigning objects to variables, except the use of the ThisComponent variable that is peculiar to Basic. The code would look much the same in Python.