Re: excel plugin

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:12:24PM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> My (GPL'd) econometrics program currently reads CSV files, but it
> would be nice if it could read excel files directly since so many
> people have data in that form.
>
> I'm thinking of delving into the gnumeric excel plugin to see if my
> prog could make use of it.  Any suggestions on what it would take for
> a "third-party" program to access the plugin?  At the end of the day
> I'd just want a data matrix out of the sheet; and I think I could
> insist on hard-wired data (no formulas) though of course the ability
> to cash out formulas would be nice.
In the long run I am working towards producing
libgnumeric     - pure glib
libgnumeric-gtk - gui

You would be able to link against libgnumeric and use the excel
plugin.  However, this is not a high priority just now.  It will
happen, but not necessarily this year.
 
> One additional question: I presume the plugin is gnome- and
> bonobo-specific so it would be a major deal to get it working with
> the win32 version of my program?

The plugin is not gnome bonobo specific.  However, it does rely on
glib.  That should not be a hinderance when running under win32.