I think OOo would benefit more from a simple API and documentation. This isn't quite as hard as it sounds, but it sure is a lot of work. Create a suite of functions for common actions. For example, just writing text to the screen takes like 6 lines. Write a simple Print() function that hides those 6 lines of code.A good idea would be to write a FileConvert() function, that converts files between different formats. It could have a syntax like: FileConvert("mydocument.doc","mydocument.pdf"); That seems to be a popular use for OOo and one that is normally a very complex operation. This sort of thing would make OOo a more attractive platform. If anyone is interested in doing this, I can put you in touch with some outside developers who currently use OOo as a development platform, or would like to do so in the future. Cheers, Daniel.
This is what they are abstraction libraries type of a framework within a framework that make all the complexity and verbosity of uno go away or at least become simpler. I guess this libraries could be improved to the way they are or a better idea include them on the next distiribution of OOo.
DannyB created a series of modules that make it more python-like to generate a window for example. For example Danny.OOo.PrintToWriter.py module does exactly what you want. Danny also have ports this libraries for Java and OOoBasic.
More info here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=14409&highlight=pyuno+libraries
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