Run a macro stored in a "free" file

[MiraMike]

Hi experts !

I would like to know if it's possible to have a macro stored in a given file, not in an OO's tree (e.g: 'myProject/doc/myExporterMacro.xba'), which we could pass on command line macro's URL (something like 'ooffice -headless "macro:pathToMacro/macro.function()').
the aim is to have the macro's file managed in CVS, with the scripts automatically exporting the whole project's documentation to a standardized area (ISO rules ok... )

[DannyB]

It would be possible to have a pair of macros which install a free macro into the office, and then copy a macro from the office back to a free file.

You could call both the install and extract macros from the command line.

But you could not, AFAIK, execute a macro directly from a "free" file.


For more about extracting and installing macros using Basic code, see these....

The Quine program
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10069
See the first example in this thread. It is not really a Quine. But it does show how to extract the text of a Basic program using Basic.


See the following items at OOoMacros.org....
Add On Installer
Add On Tool

See Andrew Pitonyak's Macro document, which can be found here. Section 5.29 Libraries may have what you need to know.
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