OpenOffice.org Visual Basic

[Justin Fitzgibbon]

Another starting point would be
the Visual Basic compatible interpreter
module in Openoffice (aka StarOffice 6).

Its already opensource, and runs on Linux and Win32 although it lacks an independant VB development environment.

Cross fertilisation between OpenOffice.org and
your project would create better compatibility for OpenOffice and VBA. Ultimately an open source VB would be a wonderful boon to developers everywhere.

I'm not an Openoffice developer just a supporter so you might want to take it up with one of the development team at www.openoffice.org

I do use visual basic all the time through so an open version would be great.

I notice that www.janus-software.com has a VB like language which they plan to release as open source they might be willing to contibute source for "OpenVB".

- Justin Fitzgibbon

[Paul Robinson]

I thought of that myself.  My problem was, in looking over listings of hundreds of files in the sources of Open Office, I could not figure out from a rudimentary inspection where the code for the implementation of Visual Basic was in which files or what parts would be needed without a considerable amount of work of essentially opening every source file and looking them over.