Subject: Re: gnumeric and macros?
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 23:32:20 AKST
Gnumeric Features:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/features.shtml
* 98% of builtin MS Excel functions, plus many not in MS Excel
Take a look: http://grub.ath.cx/gnumeric-python
"Everything you never wanted to know about Gnumeric and Python"
Also, see: Package: gnumeric-python 1.1.16-6
ttp://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/gnumeric-python.html
Python plugins for the GNOME spreadsheet
"R" <--> gnumeric
http://www.omegahat.org/RGnumeric/Docs/introduction.pdf
Greg Madden wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:41, Arthur Corliss wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, William Bouterse wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Has anyone seriously used Gnumeric ?
>>
>>I use it extensively, but *how* I use it is perhaps not that impressive. ;-)
>>
>>
>>>It appears to be a very impressive Spreed Sheet app.
>>>with some things even excell does not have however;
>>>showing it to a db admin person recently I was asked...
>>>"Where's the Macros?"
>>>
>>>Being relatively cluless with regards to spread sheets
>>>and macros, other than theory I could not quickly answer?
>>>
>>>Is there the equivalent tool with Gnumeric ?
>>
>>I don't know of any macro support in Gnumeric, nor is there any mention of
>>such in the manual. You can do some automation with it externally via CORBA,
>>but beyond that, I know of no user-friendly interface.
>>
>>What's strange is that at one time there used to be some support for that, but
>>it looks like it was removed from the CVS tree well over a year ago. I would
>>have to think they probably removed it since it only worked with the older
>>versions of Excel, and was only partially implemented at that.
>
>
> There are improvements happening. The 1.1.x release branch now has a
> preferences menu item. It doesn't allow a lot of tweaking but it is a
> start. I use it as a glorified calculator, I enter all the HVAC Fan Law
> performance formulas creating a template that I can enter variables (my
> data) into. Works great and is fast & lightweight. I don't know much
> more about spreadsheets though, esp Macro's.
>
> OO.org.calc doesn't translate Excel macros (VBA) either, although the
> help mentions there are way to work around this. OO.org.calc has its own
> macros.
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