[Techtalk] OpenOffice.org Basic macro query
Wolfgang Petzold
petzold at villa-chaos.de
Fri Jun 29 19:54:12 UTC 2007
Hi!
Conor Daly:
> I've recorded a little macro in Openoffice.org 2.04 but I want to finish
> it with a call to festival. Is there an equivalent to the c 'system()'
> function? All I want is something like:
>
> system("festival --tts /tmp/text")
>
> Any clue?
I've tried to browse through the OpenOffice help pages and
stumbled over the "Shell" function which seems to be just
what you're looking for.
Choose "Help" from the macro editor window, and then
"Runtime functions", "Other functions".
Wolfgang
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