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Re: VBA???
by Norbert on Friday 25/Jul/2003, @05:35

We will have a JavaScript based scripting language as a plugin (but without many dangerous things, like access to other applications/file system...). Mainly you will be able to do all the things you can do with the GUI.

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Re: VBA???
by panzi on Friday 25/Jul/2003, @05:50

Are you using QSA? Will thre be DB access and all Qt features?

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Re: VBA???
by Norbert on Friday 25/Jul/2003, @10:29

My current plugin on the hard disc uses QSA indeed, but I'm thinking about using kjs instead.

You will be able to do everything you can do using the KSpread user interface, so you get the database access KSpread currently has.

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Re: VBA???
by Eric Laffoon on Friday 25/Jul/2003, @11:39

Basic is from hell. There's no doubt about that. If you can initiate a shell process then you can run a Kommander dialog which can speak DCOP. So whatever you have available in DCOP is what it could do. This would be very cool because it's here now (in the quanta module) and it doesn't require any actual scripting for simple tasks like a data entry widget. Have you looked at Kommander? It's based on Qt Designer and the concept of associating text with widgets to assemble strings. It can use scripting in any language that runs in the shell and is DCOP enabled. Our objective is to extend it to where it is very user friendly to non programmers. We will also be adding data widgets soon.

It would be very cool to be able to use visual dialogs for spreadsheet mini applications.

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Re: VBA???
by Apollo Creed on Friday 25/Jul/2003, @13:14

It would be nice with a small Kommander tutorial. I see you talking about it a lot, still I don't know exactly what the h*ll it is. ;) A small text to help people to see the light would be good.

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Re: VBA???
by Andras Mantia on Saturday 26/Jul/2003, @00:37

See: http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?snapfile=snap02
Also check out the quanta/quanta/data/scripts directory in the Quanta CVS HEAD (KDE CVS servers) for examples.

Andras

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Re: VBA???
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 29/Jul/2003, @14:44

There is a tutorial with examples on the Quanta site with our downloads. In a nutshell it's a graphical dialog builder based on Qt Designer. The twist is that it allows you to "associate text" with it's widgets. So a button could gather up text from the widgets in a dialog and assemble a string which it could sent to stdout or via DCOP, as an example of what it can do. It can also script natively in shell scripting (bash) and load and run other scripts like Perl or Python. All of this combines to make it very powerful while being relatively simple compared to language based tools.

I'll attach an example. If you have Quanta 3.1 or greater installed on your system you can run Kommander files with the command "kmdr-executor [path/]filename" or edit them with the command "kmdr-editor [path/]filename"

htmlquickstart.kmdr
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