[Gambas-user] "big" projects in Gambas

[Rob]

On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:27, Eilert wrote:
> Wow, how do you do that? Can you access OOo from Gambas? Or do
> you produce text files to be read and formatted from OOo?

Sorry to interject here, but I have looked into this myself and 
am curious about what HMB did as well.

Using the gb.compress and gb.xml components, I believe it is 
possible to construct or modify OOo documents, though it would 
require A LOT of code to do so.  There is a Perl module called 
OpenOffice::OODoc which I hope to use as a reference in writing 
a Gambas component to deal with OOo documents once Gambas 
supports writing components in Gambas.  (I'll likely write a set 
of classes to include in various projects before then, but 
ultimately it should be a component to help with version 
management.)

My own printing in Gambas has been very similar to my printing in 
VB... write a set of functions to maintain cursor position, 
handle printing text and boxes, etc. without having to have 
Draw.This and Draw.That in my business logic.  Several of the 
banking apps I have written required printing with consistent 
text positioning (for printing on forms) and thankfully, Gambas 
has proven to be up to the task.

Rob