Plugin Ideas

[Muthiah Annamalai <muthus_post yahoo com>]

Hi there,
 I like gnumeric and want to write a functions plugin.
 Basically,the Idea will be to create UI dialogs / reporting
 from cells, when certain things/events/conditions happen.
 
 Possible functions
 
 1 Display  ,  =Display("message fmt",c1,c2,c3, ....);
     which just pops up a dialog to the user.    
 
 2 Input  , =Input("Enter Value")
     you type in the value, at GUI, and it goes into the cell,
 
 3 ShowImage, =ShowImage(<image-file>)
     shows an Image    
 
 4 ChooseFile, =ChooseFile(<root-path>)
     shows you a File Dialog, so that you could choose
     a file, for cell content    
 
 5 ChooseDir, =ChooseDir(<root-path>)
     shows you a File Dialog, so that you could choose
      a dir, for cell content
 
 6 ConditionalDisp,
 =ConditionalDisp(<codition>,<message>)
     shows message, when your condition is true.
 
 7 ExecCells, =ExecCells(<cell list> | <cell range>)
      you can show list of cells we need to evaluate, or 
      process in order, like a programming language
 
 8 RepeatCell, =RepeatCell(<repeat factor> | <cell number>)
     repeat the function on those cells,
 
 9 ExecCommand, =ExecCommand(<execute command>,<args>)
     execute commands from gnumeric
 
 Basically using this set of functions we could do conditional branching,
 and use Gnumeric cell's as a type of programming language.
 
 I dont know how it will work, but it looks exciting.
 Please let me know what you guys think, if its been done before,
 or if its not-so-good idea.
 
 Thanks
 Muthu

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