On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:55:29AM -0500, Jody Goldberg was heard to remark: > > > Speaking of which, is there an example of how a programmer (in C or > > > scheme) can create a gnumeric spreadshhet & put data into it? I'm > > > not sure I've ever seen such a thing. > > > > Depends on what you're trying to do. Simple export is problably > > best done by generating the xml directly. No need to link to > > gnumeric at all. Alternatively there are things like > > pworkbook, or jworkbook to provide a comfier api via python or java > > :-( > > Well, that's been the topic of this thread, and from that vantage, > generating xml is inadquate. Same reasons, previously covered, > that I don't want to generate abiword xml to get an abiword report. > Been there done that (actually that's how gnucash currently works, > it generates html, not xml, it uses gtkhtml not gnumeric for layout, > although adequate, it most definitely is *not* the cat's pajamas.)
Exporting to XML for the sake of creating a report wouldn't be that painful though. You don't generate reports constantly. But you need to start, open and save which, I guess, takes long and is therefore clumsy. (Posting this to gnucash-devel only as this is just a side-comment that you can pick up or not) *t -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
