StarOffice Basic (also known as StarBasic) is a dialect of Basic that is included with the OpenOffice.org and StarOffice office suite. It supports Unicode.

Although StarBasic itself is similar to other dialects of Basic, such as Microsoft's VBA, the API is very different, as the example below of a macro illustrates.

Sub ParaCount ' ' Count number of paragraphs in a text document ' Dim Doc As Object, Enum As Object, Count As Long Doc = ThisComponent ' Is this a text document? If Not Doc.SupportsService("com.sun.star.text.TextDocument") Then MsgBox "This macro must be run from a text document", 64, "Error" Exit Sub End If Count=0 ' Examine each component - paragraph or table? Enum=Doc.Text.CreateEnumeration While Enum.HasMoreElements TextEl=Enum.NextElement ' Is the component a paragraph? If TextEl.SupportsService("com.sun.star.text.Paragraph") Then Count=Count+1 End If Wend 'Display result MsgBox Count, 0, "Paragraph Count" End Sub

External links

BASIC Macros

• StarOffice 7 Basic programmer's guide
• StarOffice 8 Programming Guide for BASIC
• OpenOffice.org VBA emulation model project (still in heavy development)
• Andrew Pitonyak's macro information

StarOffice/OpenOffice.org API

• OpenOffice.org/StarOffice API Project Page
  • OpenOffice.org SDK
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0 Developer's Guide
    StarOffice 8 Developer's Guide
  • API reference manual

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