Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't view/edit python macro samples

Hi :)
OpenSource is about choosing the right tool for the task.  NOT about making every tool vast and 
bloated by making it do everything badly.  It's tricky tho.  Exactly which parts of the programs 
would be  used rarely and which would be used all the time by everyone.  With some things it's 
obvious but this case is not.  

It would be nice to have a link somewhere about how to choose the right tools and what to look for, 
perhaps a recommendation somewhere like here
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Programmers
Good luck and happy hunting! 
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 9:54
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't view/edit python macro samples
>
> Le 12/03/2013 15:12, mickeyf a écrit :
>
> Hi Mickey,
>
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4.0\share\Scripts\python\pythonSamples
> >
> > I was interested in using macros with calc, but since they should also be
> > available in writer I find it a bit ironic that I need a external program
> > (or non-integrated access) to edit what is, after all, just a text file.
>
> The problem is that the internal IDE is suitable for LO Basic only. At the time that Python 
> support became available in OpenOffice.org, the developers at Sun deemed that there was no 
> suitably available IDE that could be integrated into the program. Nowadays of course, there is a 
> fairly large choice of Python IDEs, but even these are not generally installed by default in Linux 
> distributions because they are considered developer tools, and thus the integration of any one 
> choice into LO is rather moot (not to mention space considerations in the size of the download 
> that such integration might cause).
>
> Alex
>
>
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