From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-07-01T23:30:56+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get win32ole functionality in linux?

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 07:10 +0900, Sven Suska wrote:
> I am very happy that the win32ole library makes it very
> easy to control an Excel application from Ruby.
> Is there a way to do this with a spreadsheet in linux, 
> maybe with OpenOffice?

This is a good idea... doesn't OpenOffice work off some sort of
CORBA-ish component framework thingy?  There's a page on Python-Open
Office integration here:

http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html

Same sort of thing seems doable for Ruby, but I don't know if anyone has
tried yet...

Yours,

Tom