Can a Palm T3 run a Visual Basic code in Excel?

[MAGICofSeth]

I just purchased a new Palm T3. It has a program called Documents to GO ver. 6 that can run "native" Excel spreadsheets, which it says means it actually runs them in their original excel form in Excel for Palm. When I make a spreadsheet on the Palm and send it to Excel on my desktop, it works fine.

So- for my question... There is one short bit of VBA code in an Excel XP spreadsheet of mine. When I put it on the Palm, the spreadsheet works great, but the one command that the VBA code provides does not work.

I have seen programs written in VBA for Palm. Is there some addin I can get to make the palm recognize the VBA in my Excel spreadsheet?

All advice is greatly appreciated!
Thank You.
--Seth

 

[docjohn52]

What a great question! I hope someone jumps in here with some expertise! Full blown VB for the palm, and other handhelds is completely different from the standard versions of VB and a sale-able product from MicroShaft...
VBA is a subset of the standard VB, and I would love to know I could use standard VBA on a handheld!
Anybody with background, please!
The doc

 

[Nelviticus]

Well my PDA is Windows-based and comes with pocket versions of Excel and Office, neither of which support VBA, so I suspect that 'Documents to Go' doesn't support it either.

When you say "I have seen programs written in VBA for Palm" you probably mean "written in VB for Palm". Visual Basic (VB) is a language that you can write stand-alone programs in, whereas Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is more of a scripting language for automating existing programs. It's not really a subset of VB, although it is similar in many ways.

Programs written for PDAs have to be very small. If you were to add VBA support to them they'd get a lot bigger. It's certainly possible to do but I can't see it happening with the current generation of PDAs.

Nelviticus

 

[ETID]

There is also a free basic program called small basic that allows you to write palm programs.

http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net/