Subject: Re: gnumeric and macros?
From: Fielder George Dowding (fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 09:40:16 AKST
Thank you Stanley! I did not know this was available. I bet Python
beats any (repeat "any") macro language. (<-- period!) Oooh! What
power. fgd.
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:32:20 -0900
Stanley Long <slong@customcpu.com> wrote:
>
> 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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