Re: [OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-10 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Hi Benjamin: Benjamin Lindner wrote: > Philip Nienhuis wrote: >> >> Hopefully the next windows binary has an up-to-date octave-forge. >> That's the binary used mainly by folks who don't do svn... > > Do you have a particular package or specific patch in mind? > I can include a post-release versi

Re: [OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-09 Thread Benjamin Lindner
Philip Nienhuis wrote: > > Hopefully the next windows binary has an up-to-date octave-forge. That's > the binary used mainly by folks who don't do svn... Do you have a particular package or specific patch in mind? I can include a post-release version of an octave-forge package in the binary inst

Re: [OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-05 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Michael Goffioul wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Philip Nienhuis > wrote: >> I'll try to ask there. >> My scripts don't actually "link" to COM/ActiveX, they just invoke it. >> I think if any trespassing has ever occurred, it's probably in the >> (compiled) Windows package itself. But...

Re: [OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-05 Thread David Bateman
Philip Nienhuis wrote: >> I tend to use texinfo so that help pages appear correctly and I can >> include all of the documentation in a *.info in the directory with >> the functions and "doc " can give more complete documentation >> including examples and context than the help file can. > > Hmmm,

Re: [OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Goffioul
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Philip Nienhuis wrote: > I'll try to ask there. > My scripts don't actually "link" to COM/ActiveX, they just invoke it. > I think if any trespassing has ever occurred, it's probably in the > (compiled) Windows package itself. But... AINAL The COM interface is only

Re: [OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-04 Thread Philip Nienhuis
David Bateman wrote: > Philip Nienhuis wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At my employer's office we use Matlab intensively and many, many data >> are kept & handled in Excel spreadsheet files. So to be able to use >> octave there I've made xlsread / xlswrite / xlsfinfo scripts as >> octave drop-in replacements f

Re: [OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-04 Thread David Bateman
Philip Nienhuis wrote: > Hi, > > At my employer's office we use Matlab intensively and many, many data > are kept & handled in Excel spreadsheet files. So to be able to use > octave there I've made xlsread / xlswrite / xlsfinfo scripts as > octave drop-in replacements for use in procedures otherwis

[OctDev] Advice needed on contribution of .xls (Excel) access scripts

2009-12-03 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Hi, At my employer's office we use Matlab intensively and many, many data are kept & handled in Excel spreadsheet files. So to be able to use octave there I've made xlsread / xlswrite / xlsfinfo scripts as octave drop-in replacements for use in procedures otherwise done with Matlab. Presently it