The thought occurred to me. I actually did come across a situation where we
wanted to provide spreadsheet functionality but in a very constrained
manner. The reason being that the users were already using spreadsheets and
were very nervous about causing errors. So they wanted a custom program
instead, but they needed flexibility in how to define a calculation.
We never did that app, because we were going to get a "better bang for buck"
by doing other things first.
Anyways my thoughts about doing this with Rebol:
1) Need to build a grid based entry interface style. Once done, very useful
for other Rebol applications.
2) Need to code a graph sorting algorithm that gets as input the
dependencies between cell calculations.
3) Need to provide all the little user-interface niceties that people expect
from spreadsheet applications.
4) Aim to keep as much power of Rebol as possible accessible to user entered
parts of the spreadsheet.
I think (1) is the most reusable for other applications. (2) is an
interesting problem to solve.
(3) may actually be the most amount of work in the project - users expect a
lot!
but (4) is a good justification for a Rebol powered spreadsheet - Rebol
programming can be made visual...
Brett.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 8:17 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Spreadsheet
> Has anyone thought of making a spreadsheet in Rebol/View or Rebol/Link?
>
> I'd really like to combine the best parts of Star Office Spreadsheet,
> Microsoft Office Excel and Lotus Improv, and merge them together with a
> generous helping of Rebol Script.
>
> Andrew Martin
> ICQ: 26227169 http://members.nbci.com/AndrewMartin/
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