Re: Automatic conversion for spreadsheets

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:00:54PM +1030, Trevor Nichols wrote:
> I've got a number of XLS files that I am using gnumeric to convert into
> text format using a number of settings on the export wizard.  I've
> looked at the code but can't figure out how to get this to be automated.

There is no code currently to do it.  I've started on a trivial
wrapper to handle it but have never bothered to finish it.  Doing
this in the development tree is quite simple now.
 
> Is this currently possible?  The things I couldn't work out was how to
> load up the appropriate code from the plugins to run in a separate
> program that I started to write.

Your best bet is to use gnumeric's main-application.c as a template.
that loads everything up.  You can strip out the startup code that
is unnecessary, and tack on a 

  plugin_db_activate_plugin_list (plugins_get_available_plugins (), NULL);

to activate all available plugins.