[cw-discuss] Running Visual Basic sripts

[Timothy]

I second the motion for being able to run Visual Basic scripts, 
especially for Office automation. Office automation is very useful if 
you're stuck having to generate the same kinds of Office documents and 
spreadsheets over and over again. It would be  helpful just to be able 
to run the scripts on Linux, because they could be developed on the 
WinXXX platform and then used in production on Linux.

Thanks,

--Tim

William Bagwell wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Jeremy White wrote:
>   
>> snips
>> Take Microsoft Office, for example.  We built our product line around
>> support for MS Office.  Early incarnations of CrossOver essentially did
>> nothing but Microsoft Office.  But on the Mac, it's largely unneeded.  So
>> half of our market doesn't need it.  And on Linux, interest in MS Office
>> has been waning, year over year.  OpenOffice is getting better, and there
>> are enough alternatives that it isn't as compelling.  And, thanks to our
>> work, free Wine runs MS Office increasingly well, so folks don't need to
>> buy CrossOver to run it.  So if we focused
>> on nothing but Microsoft Office, we'd be out of business right now.
>>     
> Intersting points... One possible niche to consider. As good as OpenOffice has 
> become in recent years, it still will not run scripts or macros in (for 
> example) Excel spreadsheets. Translating them from Visual Basic to something 
> else is a royal pain! And pointless, if you ever need to share them back with 
> Windows users.
>
> Perhaps this would be easier (or at least possible) to implement with the 
> Wine / CXO codebase? I would certainly pay for a plug-in for OpenOffice that 
> would fill this gap without requiring buying a copy of Microsoft Office.
>