Re: Strings in gnumeric: implementing a gawk pipeline

2007-01-16 Thread Priit Laes
Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2007-01-16 kell 20:06, kirjutas Morten Welinder: > Changing the behaviour of search functions is not a good idea as > some spreadsheets surely depend on the existing, hopefully Excel > compatible, behaviour. > > That leaves you pretty much four options: > > 1. Write your own

Re: New Gnumeric icon

2007-01-16 Thread Ryan Pavlik
As a note regarding that, using png2ico (found here: http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ ) would probably be a useful step as well as you can combine the multiple size versions into a single file in the format that Windows desires for icons. I use it for my AbiWord icons on Windows.

Re: Strings in gnumeric: implementing a gawk pipeline

2007-01-16 Thread Morten Welinder
Changing the behaviour of search functions is not a good idea as some spreadsheets surely depend on the existing, hopefully Excel compatible, behaviour. That leaves you pretty much four options: 1. Write your own plugin with search functions that do what you want. That's actually not too har

Re: strings in gnumeric / awk / etc.

2007-01-16 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Tue, 2007-16-01 at 21:50 +0200, Uri David Akavia wrote: > On 1/16/07, Leonard Mada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > gawk has many advantages and I may point another two: > > - it is easy and simple, and very very fast (both to write and execute - > > even on huge datasets) > > - the code is st

Re: strings in gnumeric / awk / etc.

2007-01-16 Thread Leonard Mada
Uri David Akavia wrote: > In order to keep security ... I do NOT see, why security is an issue here. This is NOT the way Excel executes macros. Indeed, such script would NOT be run automatically when loading a spreadsheet, BUT only when the user specifically clicks on a specific Menu Command.

Re: strings in gnumeric / awk / etc.

2007-01-16 Thread Uri David Akavia
On 1/16/07, Leonard Mada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gawk has many advantages and I may point another two: > - it is easy and simple, and very very fast (both to write and execute - > even on huge datasets) > - the code is structured and visible, so it is easy to understand what > it does (this

Re: New Gnumeric icon

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan, Wong Yat Cheung
Hi Vinicius, Looks great! Could you mind to make an icon collection for the Windows version of Gnumeric as well? i.e. icons with 1-bit transparent mask. I remember there're some users complaining about the icons on win32 which don't look very great... Regards, Ivan. Vinicius Depizzol wrote: >

Re: strings in gnumeric / awk / etc.

2007-01-16 Thread Leonard Mada
Hello, Prof J C Nash wrote: > Some of the issues being raised suggest that a spreadsheet is not the > right analytic tool. How about a data frame in R? Well, this is difficult, too. When there is a bunch of diagnoses (or symptoms) lumped together - in one single column, that won't be easy to w

Quadratic Formula

2007-01-16 Thread Red Sarna
You might be interested in: http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Quadratic/index.html --Red Sarna -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-li

Re: strings in gnumeric / awk / etc.

2007-01-16 Thread Prof J C Nash
Some of the issues being raised suggest that a spreadsheet is not the right analytic tool. How about a data frame in R? There are easy transformations from spreadsheet to data-frame and back (and they should be better set up but are not to my knowledge!). R allows character strings to be conve

Quadratic solver for Gnumeric

2007-01-16 Thread Juraj Vicenik
Hello, I'm about to work on a quadratic solver for gnumeric as a topic for my thesis. So far I have trouble looking for an existing solver which I could use. Can anybody give any suggestion? Regards Juraj Vicenik ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-