Re: [sc-dev] Microsoft testing Excel for supercomputers

2009-11-19 Thread Erich Neuwirth
tions? Is there any > library that takes care of the complexity of sending/receiving > computation requests to multiple machines? > > It's sort of my pet peeves to make Calc more appealing to the scientific > community, but unfortunately I don't have enough expertise to follow &

[sc-dev] Realtime data input

2009-04-25 Thread Erich Neuwirth
Excel has a special interface for realtime data. Excel has a function RTD (real time data) and there is a definition for ActiveX controls (i.e. COM servers) which can supply values to this function. Are there any plans for doing something similar in Calc? -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna

[sc-dev] Python on Windows

2009-02-04 Thread Erich Neuwirth
find the information I need, and some examples, i.e. how to make a function defined in Python a worksheet function in OOCalc? -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1

[sc-dev] xy-chart

2008-08-12 Thread Erich Neuwirth
Linux and in 3.0beta on Windows) , it seems that empty lines (more specifically 2 empty cells in a row) in this situation are just neglected. Is there a way of reproducing Excel's behavior? Erich Neuwirth Didactic Center for Computer Science and Institute for Scientiic Computing Unive

[sc-dev] Calc events

2008-04-28 Thread Erich Neuwirth
. -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [sc-dev] Sliders and chart animation

2008-04-28 Thread Erich Neuwirth
BIG excuse. After rebooting, the problem disappeared. Sliders now work well in In OO-3.0.0_Dev on Windows and on Mac. OpenOffice is really great by now. Erich Neuwirth wrote: I am returning with my favorite subject: Using scrollbars to create animated graphics. Having a cell which controls

[sc-dev] Sliders and chart animation

2008-04-27 Thread Erich Neuwirth
t does not work really well any more. So this is an area where OOCalc could beat Excel on its own ground! -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax:

Re: [sc-dev] Re: R / Calc Name ?

2007-09-08 Thread Erich Neuwirth
CalcStar also was the spreadsheet companion program to WordStar. -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459

Re: [sc-dev] Once again, the thing I am missing most inOpenOffice

2007-04-23 Thread Erich Neuwirth
tting F1 doesn't bring up >> help on that function. So, looks like that function is no longer in >> the standard library... >> >> Anyway, >> >> Kohei >> >> --

Re: [sc-dev] Once again, the thing I am missing most in OpenOffice

2007-04-04 Thread Erich Neuwirth
the end of the scrollbar, but this gives fixed speed. Since the cell value is not updated, this is probably a Calc problem and not a Chart problem. A minor pro blem is that there is a noticeable flicker while the chart is being updated. Niklas Nebel wrote: > Erich Neuwirth wrote: >

Re: [sc-dev] Once again, the thing I am missing most in OpenOffice

2007-04-04 Thread Erich Neuwirth
using a screencast tool (there is a very nice skype adding allowing to broadcast screens). Would the OO developer community be interested in such a demo? Niklas Nebel wrote: > Erich Neuwirth wrote: >> now, create an x-y-plot for the range A3:B13 >> (with connected points). >> Y

Re: [sc-dev] Once again, the thing I am missing most in OpenOffice

2007-04-04 Thread Erich Neuwirth
This is REALLY good news. I probably wont be able t download today (no good broadband connection here), but I will do it within the next few days and give you feedback. Niklas Nebel wrote: > Erich Neuwirth wrote: >> now, create an x-y-plot for the range A3:B13 >> (with connected

Re: [sc-dev] Summer of Code: R and Calc

2007-04-02 Thread Erich Neuwirth
eet ranges. If such a framework is available, it should be easy to add a new function to the interface. -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4

Re: [sc-dev] Once again, the thing I am missing most in OpenOffice

2007-04-02 Thread Erich Neuwirth
getting animated graphics in any program. If I can get this in OO, I will consider switching part of my teaching to OO. Without it, I cannot switch. Greetings Erich Niklas Nebel wrote: > Erich Neuwirth wrote: >> I have posed this question some time ago. >> Let me repeat it

Re: [sc-dev] Summer of Code: R and Calc

2007-04-02 Thread Erich Neuwirth
of work that has been done already. And here is my "favorite complaint" again. I have not tested OpenOffice 2.2 yet. DO you know if it graphics is finally fast enough to do slider controlled animation? -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Co

Re: [sc-dev] Summer of Code: R and Calc

2007-03-31 Thread Erich Neuwirth
ed as a dataframe, in R you can immediately access the columns as vectors. What kind of additional functionality do you think is needed? -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at

[sc-dev] Once again, the thing I am missing most in OpenOffice

2007-03-25 Thread Erich Neuwirth
using this technique quite a lot. Regrettably, screen updating is by far too slow to get useful animation in OO. MS Excel does a MUCH better job here. Are there any chances that the screen updating mechanism will be improved so we also can do slider controlled animation in OO? -- Erich

Re: [sc-dev] Summer of Code: R and Calc

2007-03-18 Thread Erich Neuwirth
send you a personal copy) i think we have adressed a lot of issues of embedding R into a spreadsheet. -- Erich Neuwirth, Didactic Center for Computer Science University of Vienna Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-9394

Re: [sc-dev] R-Integration

2006-10-25 Thread Erich Neuwirth
//sourceforge.net/projects/rkward/) > > The project rkward on Sourceforge.net aims at doing exactly this. See > the documentation on the project page. > > > I hope that having these examples, will help to write an extension for > OOo Calc and finally embed R. > > Many than