[Solved] How do I learn Starbasic?

[CeilingCat]

My question is how do I create the scripts, where do I store them, and how do I invoke them?

Ok, that is three questions, but you get the picture.

And a "Hello, World" example would help, too.

cheers

Moderation (Villeroy): Moved from the Calc forum

[FJCC]

You are mixing two things in your question. To learn Starbasic you can use the Basic help section included in the help section of OpenOffice.org software or the link to the Basic Guide in the Macros and UNO API section of this web site. To learn about writing Macros using the API, you might start with Andrew Pitonyak's macro document at http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php. The Documentation Project under "I Need Help With My OpenOffice.org" at http://www.openoffice.org/ also has a lot of useful information. OpenOffice.org code snippets are available on various web sites and can be very helpful. Getting XRay (http://ooomacros.org/dev.php#101416) will help keep you sane. It would really be helpful if you gave some idea of what you want to do. Learning about the whole API is a huge task.

[CeilingCat]

Thanks FJCC
At http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php I found
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW ... macros.sxw which contains what I want to know.
The last time I wrote a macro was back in the `80s using Quattro Pro.

I am a little rusty

[r4zoli]

OOo wiki about OOo Basic programming.
StarOffice Programming Guide.