Re: Building a new application based on gnumeric

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:36:56PM +0200, Victor Morilla wrote:
>  
> The purpose of the applications is to build a set of forms
> composed of user input entries and calculated outputs. The volume
> of data managed is relatively high and its definition can suffer
> changes periodically. So, a solution could be an application that
> builds these forms using gtk or any other toolkit based on
> definitions declared in a XML file.

libglade and some mapping logic may do what you need here.
  
> Using gnumeric I can make use of its calc engine and apply it to
> the output entries, and even its format capabilities for numbers.
> The tool that interpretes the definition file should bind entries
> using gnumeric functions. This way I get a flexible and easy tu
> build app.
>  
> Is gnumeric suitable for this purpose ? What headers should I
> study ? Any recommendation to begin hacking gnumeric ?

It may be a reasonable fit, but I still don't have a clear vision of
what you're try to do.  Depending on your needs the best place in
the source to start poking around is to get it building.  Get your
self set up with a cvs build and familiarise yourself with the
associated paraphernalia.  Once you've got that I can point you at
various pieces of the source, but it will depend on which subsystem
you want to look at first.