I want to second support for this effort. I had a freelance project a few months back that had a need to generate formatted Excel documents from external API data. It also needed an easy to use GUI for it's users. At the time I desperately wanted to use Pharo (since RAD tools on personal computers have sadly become an endangered species). Instead I was forced to make an Electronic app. In short, there is a real need for this out there and I feel like it goes understated. On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 16:50 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Hi Hans-Martin,
This is great. I use Tabular too and was missing active development/maintenance. It would be very good to see this project move forward. It is quite important/useful in enterprise contexts.
Thx,
Sven
PS: where did you commit the changes ? any chance of moving it to GitHub (too) ?
On 11 Nov 2018, at 22:16, Hans-Martin <pharo-dev@fam-mosner.de> wrote:
Hello folks, I have a need for creating excel files with more than 3 worksheets, so I took the Tabular code and beefed up the exporter a little. It does handle more worksheets now, uses XMLWriter to create all the ZIP members, and is properly named now (the class was called TabularXSLXExport, note swapped S and L). Some tests have been added, there are a number of items that I plan to to as time allows: - Add (possibly limited) support for styles and formulas which I specifically need for the project I'm working on so I could write files with the desired layout and functionality. - Add support for reading more aspects of XLSX files, preferrably as much as needed to be able to read and write most files without loss. - Add rendering, maybe at the basic morphic level, maybe using something else as I'm not really up-to-date regarding the developments in Pharo. - Add formula evaluation. - Add editing capabilites to have a fully functional spreadsheet (really far off).
Cheers, Hans-Martin
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