Re: Python

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:28:39AM -0700, 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-K?re 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?

1) This is not really a python, or even a scripting issue.
2) As discussed in the bugreport the suggestion is interesting, but
   I don't have a solid enough grasp of how to implement all the corner
   cases to consider it at this time.