You're finding out that "simple" and "complete" are frequently mutually exclusive....especially when defined by you. Chances are that if what you want doesn't exist there's a good reason for it.....either not practical or not useful or doable by other means already. To make a powerful, idiot proof system is quite difficult.
By the time you get to DB functionality you will lose most users. Do you perhaps want a web-based version? http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sqliteweb.htm Generally speaking database and spreadsheet functionality are not similar enough to combine. Why do you think Excel and Access are two separate products? Just like all other office suites? They narrow their comp ability problems by importing/exporting to each other. The only concept they have in common is rows/columns/tables -- and spreadsheets didn't have tables at first (i.e. tabs). But the spreadsheet rows/columns is not really db rows/columns. The spreadsheet version is transposable for example making the row/column definition very loose. P.S. I've changed my sqlite mail subscription to my private email now. Found out that Microsquish Exchange doesn't put the REFERENCES tag back in replies. So that was breaking the topic threading. Michael Black -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Gilles Ganault Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:14 AM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: Re: [sqlite] Subject: Re: Simple SQLite-based spreadsheet? On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:04:40 +0100, Olaf Schmidt <s...@online.de> wrote: >If no such special Formatting is needed, then the >term "DataGrid" is the more common one, since >"real SpreadSheet functionality" is usually associated >with the extended requirements (at individual cell-level) >I've listed above. Thanks for the input. Indeed, a datagrid looks more like what I had in mind, since people using Excel just to build lists probably don't need that much control. OTOH, whoever writes that application could always provide two version: Basic (datagrid) and Pro (spreadsheet). SQLite being such a great tool, I just find it sad/odd that no one has come up with a datagrid/spreadsheet for non-techies that saves data in an SQLite DB. Currently, it's either Excel for most people although it's not a DB, or Access for the few (or Libre/OpenOffice + ODBC/JDBC, which is just as hard or harder than Access). Thank you. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
