[Solved] If there is a recipe book on AOO Basic?

[no_such_UNO]

I wander if there is something like a recipe book on OO Basic. Especially on what can be done with arrays using for...each, for, loop.

[JeJe]

What you mean by a recipe book? Do you mean a collection of examples?

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... uide/Loops

[Zizi64]

There is HELP for the Basic - if you want informations about the Basic statements and commands...
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en- ... n0601.html

There is a programming guide:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Doc ... ASIC_Guide

There is a list for the API - if you want informations about the functions, subroutines (properties, methods, interfaces) of the programming objects of the Application Programming Interface...
https://api.libreoffice.org/

There are Forums with many sample code snippets - just search in them. One of them is this Forum.
https://ask.libreoffice.org/c/english/5

And there are Andrew Pitonyak's free Macro Books: what contain examples for usage of the Basic AND the API.
Temporarly (I hope it: only temporarly) is not available...
https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

[JeJe]

OOBasic, in the elements not specific to the office suite, is close to a clone of Microsoft's original Visual Basic so if you search for "VB6" or "Visual Basic 6" along with what you want information about there is often code or explanation that you can use in OOBasic too.

You may find these invaluable, I do:

Basic IDE Tools
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/pr ... -ide-tools
(may be issues with newer version of OO/LO)

MRI
viewtopic.php?t=49294

[Lupp]

If you read the already mentioned famous texts ("the book" and "useful information") by Andrew Pitonyak you will find that LibO Basic (basically the same as OO.o / AOO / StarOffice Basic) is a rather simple Basic as compared to VBA which also provides lots of means to manipulate documents like an API would do.
LibO Basic isn't the API, but uses the API included with the LibO program with the help of a few predefined vaiables (StarDesktop, ThisComponent e.g.) and a short (rather "transparent") bridge to the API.

===Editing 2023-07-27 about 10:30 UTC===
Hmmm?
First time in decades Andrew's site didn't respond to me today.

[no_such_UNO]

Guys, you left me speechless, thank all of you very much!

[caceyneinei]

There is HELP for the Basic - if you want informations about the Basic statements and commands...
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en- ... n0601.html

There is a programming guide:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Doc ... ASIC_Guide

There is a list for the API - if you want informations about the functions, subroutines (properties, methods, interfaces) of the programming objects of the Application Programming Interface...
https://api.libreoffice.org/

There are Forums with many sample code snippets - just search in them. One of them is this Forum.
https://ask.libreoffice.org/c/english/5

And there are Andrew Pitonyak's free Macro Books: what contain examples for usage of the Basic AND the API.
Temporarly (I hope it: only temporarly) is not available...
https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Do you have it also in another languages ? I am originally from india so a book in Hindi would be easier for me to learn from!

[musikai]

Hmmm?
First time in decades Andrew's site didn't respond to me today.

Yes, frightening.
Backup:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230421081 ... org/oo.php

Also the german translation by Volker Lenhardt vanished from the University Site:
http://www.uni-due.de/~abi070/count.php ... eutsch.pdf
A revised translation can now be found at:
https://www.prooo-box.org/live/dokument ... eutsch.pdf

[MrProgrammer]

First time in decades Andrew's site didn't respond to me today.

Yes, frightening.

Another backup is SourceForce → OpenOffice.org Macros → Andrew Pitonyak_s Macro Doc which has his documentation from 2003 to 2006. Perhaps artificial intelligence is deleting valuable sources so that we will be forced to depend on AI for answers.

[robleyd]

The rise of the machines has begun; Armageddon is upon us! Flee while you can!

[Zizi64]

Do you have it also in another languages ? I am originally from india so a book in Hindi would be easier for me to learn from!

The LibreOffice HElP is localized. Check it please if the Hindi exists or not.

[JeJe]

The rise of the machines has begun; Armageddon is upon us! Flee while you can!

Without a machine it will be a very tiring walk.

[Lupp]

[Taking part in the sequence of partly funny, but also interesting OT comments.]

Gerd Gigerenzer: "How to remain Smart in a Smart World" (Also published 2021 -still readable?- in German under the title "Klick". )
Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist and educational researcher, admittedly only three years younger than me, and therefore too old...
At least he wrote and published this book in English. Only afterwards it was translated into German by someone else (Hainer Kober). I wonder if AI worked under a pseudonym here?

This post by Lupp is translated from German into English with the help of DeepL.com, an AI based translator.
Lupp has to admit that he didn't yet finish the book. Too much "in the internt", on silly forums, e.g. ?