What Language to use?

[Guest]

Hi i'm a newbie and I have been learning C++. I want to develop a presentation type app for gnome that uses openoffice impress as the main engine.

Does it make sense to use
(A) C/C++ becuase gnome libs are in that or would it be better to learn or
(B) Java because its simpler to interface with openoffice?
(C) some other language/ way of doing it

[DannyB]

From the gist of your question, I would say that (A) is the only approach.

If you seriously consider (B) or (C), then perhaps I misunderstand your question.

I interpret your question as one of taking source code from OOo and using it to build your own completely new application. In this case, (A) is called for. Actually, I'll generalize that. You would want to use whatever languages that OOo parts are written in. Today this is mostly C++. But some OOo parts are already written in Java. Components can be written in Python or Java today and seemlessly integrated into the office. So in the future, even (A) will be less clear of an answer.

If you mean to simply use OOo as a compiled program and drive it from some other program, then (B) or (C) are probably much easier. Learn to program OOo's API in OOo Basic. Lots of examples are already on this forum along with pointers to documentation. Sorry it isn't organized in a nice accessible way.

Once you learn the OOo API your knowledge is directly applicable to any other programming language that works with OOo.
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