It would be much nicer to have a Pascal bridge rather than to support the proprietary ActiveX protocol. Some references are on the Freepascal wiki http://wiki.freepascal.org/Office_Automation
2017-01-23 15:42 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>: > We are recently switched from AOO to LO. In the release notes a possible > removal of ActiveX is announced. > You are asking for information about the use case so here we are: > > We are using in our company a selfmade ERP system which is grown for more > than 15 years now. For historical reasons the system is written in Delphi. > At the beginning MS Office was used as "office frontend", since about 10 > years OOo/AOO/LO. The main workflow is using calc for business calculation > and writer as a kind of report tool. Most information from the main database > is delivered via ActiveX to calc. After working in calc the information are > read back and used to create documents in writer. The complete project and > document management (and many more) is done by our ERP. > > I know there are others and probably more elegant ways and about once a year > we are discussing to change that and finding the "big solution" - but this > is a huge and expensive project. > > Removing ActiveX from LO will be a showstopper and nail us to the last > supported release - or bring us back to AOO, who knows. > > Best regards > Joergen Pisarz > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
