Content deleted Content added
added sample code Tag: repeating characters |
m →External links: fix LibreOffice Basic Help link |
||
| (11 intermediate revisions by 10 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{Short description|Programming language}}
{{no footnotes|date=December 2013}}
'''OpenOffice Basic''' (formerly known as StarOffice Basic or '''StarBasic''' or '''OOoBasic''') is a dialect of the [[programming language]] [[BASIC]] that originated with the [[StarOffice]] [[Productivity software#Office suite|office suite]] and spread through [[OpenOffice.org]] and derivatives such as [[Apache OpenOffice]] and [[LibreOffice]] (where it is known as '''LibreOffice Basic'''). The language is a [[
== Example ==
Although OpenOffice Basic is similar to other dialects of BASIC, such as [[Microsoft]]'s [[Visual Basic for Applications]] (VBA), the [[application programming interface]] (API) is very different, as the example below of a [[Macro (computer science)|macro]] illustrates. While there is a much easier way to obtain the "paragraph count" document property, the example shows the fundamental methods for accessing each paragraph in a text document, sequentially.
<syntaxhighlight lang="
Sub ParaCount
'
Line 30 ⟶ 31:
MsgBox Count, 0, "Paragraph Count"
End Sub
</syntaxhighlight>
== See also ==
* [[Comparison of office suites]]
== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book|first=James|last=Steinberg|title=Open Office Basic: An Introduction|
== External links ==
* [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide OpenOffice.org BASIC Programming Guide] wiki
* [https://help.libreoffice.org/
* [https://www.manfridayit.co.uk/blog/coding-vba-tips-snippets/using-vb-net-to-update-open-office-calc-spreadsheet/ Automating Open Office in VB.NET]
{{OpenOffice}}
| |||