StarOffice Basic
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StarOffice Basic (also known as StarBasic) is a dialect of Basic that is included with the OpenOffice.org and StarOffice office suite. It supports Unicode.
Although StarBasic itself is similar to other dialects of Basic, such as Microsoft's VBA, the API is very different, as the example below of a macro illustrates.
Sub ParaCount
'
' Count number of paragraphs in a text document
'
Dim Doc As Object, Enum As Object, Count As Long
Doc = ThisComponent
' Is this a text document?
If Not Doc.SupportsService("com.sun.star.text.TextDocument") Then
MsgBox "This macro must be run from a text document", 64, "Error"
Exit Sub
End If
Count=0
' Examine each component - paragraph or table?
Enum=Doc.Text.CreateEnumeration
While Enum.HasMoreElements
TextEl=Enum.NextElement
' Is the component a paragraph?
If TextEl.SupportsService("com.sun.star.text.Paragraph") Then
Count=Count+1
End If
Wend
'Display result
MsgBox Count, 0, "Paragraph Count"
End Sub
External links
- StarOffice 7 Basic programmer's guide (http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/so7en)
- Andrew Pitonyak's macro information (http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php)
- API reference manual (http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/module-ix.html)