Re: Usage of ActiveX in Libre Office

Hello,

On 1/23/2017 5:42 PM, libroffice.dev@artavi.de<mailto:libroffice.dev@artavi.de> wrote:
We are recently switched from AOO to LO. In the release notes a possible removal of ActiveX is 
announced.
You are asking for information about the use case so here we are:

We are using in our company a selfmade ERP system which is grown for more than 15 years now. For 
historical reasons the system is written in Delphi. At the beginning MS Office was used as "office 
frontend", since about 10 years OOo/AOO/LO. The main workflow is using calc for business 
calculation and writer as a kind of report tool. Most information from the main database is 
delivered via ActiveX to calc. After working in calc the information are read back and used to 
create documents in writer. The complete project and document management (and many more) is done by 
our ERP.

I know there are others and probably more elegant ways and about once a year we are discussing to 
change that and finding the "big solution" - but this is a huge and expensive project.

Just wanted to mention two (now discontinued) projects that aimed to provide alternative ActiveX MS 
Office-compatible APIs for OpenOffice.org: AutomateIT! 
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/automateit/) and UniOffice (http://wiki.etersoft.ru/UniOffice, 
http://ftp.etersoft.ru/pub/Etersoft/UniOffice@Etersoft/). They are open-source, and may be of some 
interest if someone wants to take the code and improve/maintain it. In Russia, there were a number 
of working solutions based on them, so they are at least working starting point.


Removing ActiveX from LO will be a showstopper and nail us to the last supported release - or bring 
us back to AOO, who knows.

Best regards
Joergen Pisarz
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Best regards,
Mike Kaganski