I believe it's just the ActiveX plugin which was designed to view LibreOffice documents through IE. Unfortunately, we did not have a test case for other COM automation to confirm if that's the case.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]> wrote: > I think what he meant is that rewriting their ERP to another API to > drive LibreOffice would be quite some work for them, and not gonna > happen except if forced kicking and screaming. > > In principle, I like to support these kinds of universal (in this case > "universal on a platform") APIs; are we deprecating / yanking only > ActiveX or the whole COM Automation / OLE / ... bridge (insofar as > these differ, I'm a bit lost in the Microsoft terminology)? > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 09:19:33PM +0100, Heiko Tietze wrote: >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
