----- Original Message ----- From: "louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: [list] [delphi-en] Excel File Generation
> Hi there > > How can I generate Excel files without using COM, i.e. I just want to > create the file and pop it in a directory somewhere. > > Any ideas? Well if the data is tabular/dataset based you might use Mike Shkolnik's suite: http://www.scalabium.com/sme/ (but I suspect you already know of this :-) ) As for the actual formats, MS is very reluctant to let them out... " Qualified customers, partners, or government entities that verify the Office APIs and XML, RTF or HTML formats do not address their particular needs may apply to Microsoft to license technical documentation for certain Microsoft Office binary file formats for the following licensing programs: " but perhaps there's a useful alternative there for you nonetheless: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;840817 The most promising IMHO seems to be that of generating XML Excel files. Cheers Walter ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
