[ale] oocalc: a sad story from a oocalc newbie

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> That said, OpenOffice.org can be extended with the UNO specifications 
> using python (and some java too, I think).  As the file type is 
> essentially a gzipped xml file, it will be tricky to create it on the 
> fly and have oocalc be happy with it. But you can crate a blank 
> spreadsheet and save it and use that as a template to work from. It may 
> be easy to hack UNO and alter the default save directory everytime the 
> thing opens.

IMHO UNO is an incredible pain. I've used the python binding to automate 
the conversion of documents, but to programmatically alter documents I 
found it simpler to unzip them and work with the xml. That said, if 
someone can dig through the UNO docs and write a macro to change the 
default save directory I'd love to see it.

-Brian