Re: Python

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:00, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:16, pasty wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Not sure if this is the best place to ask these questions, but here goes.
> >  As new comer to Gnumeric, I'm trying hard to leave Microsoft's Excel 
> > behind.  Unfortunately, I've become rather reliant on a number of functions 
> > written in visual basic.  Transfering excel workbooks really means re- 
> > writing a number of functions.
> >  When adding user defined functions, is it best to write python plugin 
> > modules (as described in the help manual) or is there another method?
> >  If python plugins are the most suitable, is there a way of having gnumeric 
> > re-read the python plugin file without closing and re-opening?
> > 
> > Functions written in python plugin work real well.  It would be nice 
> > however, if Gnumeric could load a python function definition set written 
> > for a specific workbook, maybe embedded in the Gnumeric file, or saved to 
> > the same directory with the workbook's name and the .py file extension
> >  Can user defined functions be called by the button wigets?
> > 
> > There is an entry in the Gnumeric manual under extending Gnumeric called 
> > "defining new functions".  Is this page empty because the feature hasn't 
> > been documented yet, or because the feature hasn't been implemented yet.
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know much about the python plugin and the ability to write new
> functions using it. Hopefully Jon-Kåre or Adrian will reply to your
> message. I would be interested in knowing though, what functions you
> need to add that aren't already provided by gnumeric. I don't find it
> hard to write plugins in C that add additional functions. And if there
> are any generic functions that would be nice to be added to gnumeric we
> would proba;y like to do that.
>
> Andreas

I have one, if you don't mind me jumping in here. When I set up a reference to a cell on another sheet that is set up to go to a URL (or a mailto: which is what I really want), I would like to be able to click on the referencing cell and have it take the same action as the referenced cell would take if I clicked on it directly. Does that make sense?

Don Henson