From what I see there are a lot of people like me who are struggling to work AO/LO BASIC to achieve what they want. There are many much appreciated helpers here, but the odd one that seems to delight in making things difficult or ridiculing such requests - (on a ‘Help’ forum!).
We are constantly told to ‘look at the API’. In my case, it is setting Calc print area that I have been having trouble with lately. I look at the API, ‘XPrintAreas Interface Reference’. There, plain as the hand in front of my face is the Public Member Function ’ setPrintAreas()’. Great. OK. Now, how do I use that in BASIC? Can I see the way to do it? How does one access these functions? What are the magic words I need to translate that into BASIC? The Developers Guide - First Steps gives ‘hints’ but some way to learn the 'translation into BASIC would be very useful. XRay/MRI doesn’t really help in this task. Picking up code snippets from others is not the best way to learn (although it often eases the pain!).
Any pointers?
