Detailed tutorial regarding LibreOffice to Python macro writing, especially for Calc
I've google a bit I came empty. A lot of bits and pieces but nothing detailed and to the point that explains everything from setup to the API and to the why. Most of it expect intimate knowledge of LibreOffice API.
I am not a programmer, I only dabble in this. Are there any resources out there that are not for helping people that don't need help?
You sure it must be Python? Ok, We may be near to the crest of the Python wave. We had a Java wave, too, which may have reach the beach meanwhile. Now and then there will be a version upgrade of Python. It seems an update of the uno-bridge may then also be needed. Will the Python people do it? BASIC may be a rather outdated language and the StarBASIC IDE is not state of the art, there are less "nice tools" ...
But StarBASIC is the programming tool LibreOffice comes with.
If StarBASIC one day will be replaced there should be hope that the LibreOffice team will also mind the transition/conversion ...
I don't actually know Python, and I'm using StarBASIC very limited. But if there should be need of custom programming I would firts try BASIC to come to a solution.
@Lupp: IHMO youre wrong, its not about waves, hype's whatever...python still exist 25 Years -- that, with respect, is in terms of IT a very long time, and its importance results from stable and robust development* and not because of some kind being "the latest craze"...
*other reasons may be: Easy to learn, easy to test, ..to develop, excellent Documentation, lot of ready to use third party stuff....
@karolus Yes! Python seems to be matured - and I already confessed that I don't know more about it, except that I read and tried to understand a few code snippets published here and in the OpenOffice forum, some of them contributed by you. There I also made an observation: More than one times somebody (you again among them) suspected a Python upgrade to be the reason of a broken custom routine. I really don't like BASIC. For the very little programming I do in LibO I'll stick to it nonetheless.
I am looking for Python because 1) I am somewhat familiar with it and 2) I don't want to learn LibreOffice Basic just for LibreOffice scripts.