Re: Scripting in Gnome

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:22 -0800, Rob Adams wrote:
> It'd be awesome if gnumeric could become infected by excel macro
> viruses.

All the other kids think it's cool.  ;-)

I'm sure some of the more brain-dead issues could be worked around.  I.
e., disabling any kind of I/O (does excel allow that?) and such.  Secure
embedded scripts are a possibility, it's just that most vendors botch
them up like a hill billy in Congress.  (No, I swear, that wasn't a jab
at Bush.)

> 
> -Rob
> 
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 14:46, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:15:12PM +0000, jamie wrote:
> > 
> > Amen brother !
> > If you write it we will use it.  In Gnumeric we could dearly use
> > something to interpret vba.  I've had two possibilities in mind for
> > a while now.
> > 
> > 1) Pray that vb.net is 'close enough' to be automapped from vba
> > 2) extract the p-code (pre parsed tokens) in the macros in office
> >    files and translate that to python.  I'm leaning towards this
> >    just now.  There is code to extract vba source code from ms
> >    office files, and I've got some docs on the p-code but the
> >    extraction is still largely a research project.
> > 
> > The anti-virus folk are interested in p-code extraction too.
> > Although I doubt they want to execute it :-)
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