[CoLoCo] Programing language for simple Open Office program

[NICK VERBECK]

You will want to use Python as your language. Also to make sure with
will work cross platform you will want to make sure you use all the
correct cross platform functions in Python. i.e. No hard coding.

The second thing you will need to look into is Python
bindings/wrappers for creating OOCalc files. They will probable be
called something like python-openoffice or something along those
lines.

That start will build you an application to run on a computer. If you
have a web server at your disposal. You can create a web front end in
HTML/Javascript/(Python or PHP). That hits a set of scripts on the web
server that will take the data entered and create the OOCalc file. You
will probable want to do these scripts in python just like you would
above. Just no GUI front end.

On Nov 28, 2007 9:07 AM, Dave Vanderploeg <dave.vanderploeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to create a simple program to generate quotes in OOCalc. Here are the
> basic pieces that I need:
>
> Price List - A list of items, prices and discounts in simple spreadsheet
> format
> Form - A popup form to select items from the price list and add them to the
> Template - It should have filtering options, and may need to access more
> than one price list
> Template - What I'll PDF for my customers, another simple spreadsheet
>
> So, most of the scripting if for the form. How should I go about doing this?
> It looks like I could either use Python or JavaScript, right? Which is
> better, both in general and for my application? I need it to work on
> Windows, Linux and OSX, does python work with NeoOffice?
>
> Dave
>
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