Re: gsoc 2008

[Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel pacaud univ-poitiers fr>]

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• From: Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel pacaud lapp in2p3 fr>
• To: meetanshu gupta <meetanshu gupta gmail com>
• Cc: gnumeric-list <gnumeric-list gnome org>
• Subject: Re: gsoc 2008
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:17:48 +0100

Hi,

(CCing the list for comment of other developpers).

Le jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 01:56 +0530, meetanshu gupta a écrit :

With due respect I would like to inform you that I am a student of
third year computer engineering in NIT Jaipur, India.
 I have been coding in C for many years and XML has drawn my attention
in last few years.
I am really enthusiastic to see a project in the whole list of ideas
that integrates the both.Hence want to work on the same.
  Can you please give me more details as I could plan too little from
the outline given, to be able to write a good SoC application

The idea is to rework the existing code of the gnumeric text import
dialog, in order to be able to store its different parameters in an XML
file, and store them for latter reuse. Currently, each time the user
opens a text file, he has to review all the text import settings before
actually import the data, which is more than annoying when you import
several text files with the same format. With this work, we could offer
the choice between selecting one of the stored import settings, or the
use of the actual import setting dialog.

A further step would be to try to come up with a way to "guess" the text
import settings, for example by using the file extension, or by applying
a regular expression on the start of the file.

The code should then be moved from gnumeric to goffice.

I think it should be a good idea to look at the existing code, which
lies in the src/dialogs directory in the gnumeric sources.

        Emmanuel.

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