Nick,
I think that there is something that can be done to allow a properly
motivated POI user to add support for any necessary "third party"
extension.
But we need to enable such a user first.
I would propose a FunctionAdapter interface. The user would then roll
their own version of the extension in Java. A simple example would be
a "true random" number generator. Josh would need to comment if this
is easy or hard to do.
If such an interface were available, then a more complicated piece
would be a DotNetFunctionAdapter that if run on a Windows platform
could harness an Office extension that implements the .Net function
interface for Excel. I can see a scenario where we might get a need to
do this in Q4, but I think we're more motivated to support charting
first.
Regards,
Dave
On Jul 10, 2008, at 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Comment #2 from Nick Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-07-10
16:05:40 PST ---
At this time, we do not support excel formulas that utilise third
party
extensions, sorry
