Scripting user-defined functions: OpenOffice vs Gnumeric vs Other...

[Gérard BIGOT]

On 8/27/07, chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
> I'm new to spreadsheets but have a big data coding project that requires
> one. I'm quite worried that I'll get deeply involved with one
> spreadsheet app, design a big spreadsheet and enter a lot of data,
> before realising that I need some computation that it can't do. I'm
> gonna need to do some odd computations on this data. The thing that
> would save me is a good scripting API, so that I can just write my own
> functions with the full power of a programming language. I know Python,
> for example.
>
> So far I've been using Gnumeric. It has a Python API that is incomplete
> and only partially documented, a C API that is complete but
> undocumented, and a Perl API which is undocumented (and I can't hack
> Perl). It seems to be a great spreadsheet program otherwise but the
> scripting a little worrying.
>
> So I went looking for some sort of documentation or tutorial on what
> sort of scripting API OpenOffice Calc provides, but I'm not turning up
> much information. I think it has its own scripting language (called Uno
> perhaps?) and that there is also an API for Python. Is this correct? How
> complete is the scripting support? Is there any good documentation for
> it?
>
> Thanks


I think you might get more information going where they tame the beast, I
mean a openoffice.org forum.

G.
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