Re: Python

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 08:56, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:28, Donald Henson wrote:
> > 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?
>
> This sounds like a reasonable idea to me (but may be quite difficult
> since we are considering those links as formatting in the moment).
> Please file an enhancement request in bugzilla.gnome.org against
> gnumeric.
>
> Andreas

Done. (I think. This is my first bug submission.)

Don Henson