Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/06/2010 15:53, Gregor Kiddie wrote: How about running open office on your back end, having it open the spreadsheet on request and doing the work there? It's an interesting idea. I'll check it out. Paul Gk.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/06/2010 15:49, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Monday 28 Jun 2010 14:51:29 you wrote: > As far as I know the only way to make use of what they have is > to build a Java calculation engine that runs on the server and takes > inputs from the Flex front end and returns the outputs. As long as they

Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/06/2010 15:20, Andriy Panas wrote: Have a look at AS3XLS library http://code.google.com/p/as3xls/ Example of the usage: http://ippblog.intuit.com/blog/2010/06/flex-to-excel-or-excel-to-flex-now-that-is-the-question.html -- Best regards, Andriy Panas That's an interesting idea, but I n

Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Jeffry Houser
Paul, I'd love to find out more off-list. The next Flextras component will be a Spreadsheet; however your described use case is not something we considered. We've been designing it so that formulas are easily accessible; just like Excel. Our implementation does support disabled cells, so

RE: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Gregor Kiddie
How about running open office on your back end, having it open the spreadsheet on request and doing the work there? Gk.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 28 Jun 2010 14:51:29 you wrote: > As far as I know the only way to make use of what they have is > to build a Java calculation engine that runs on the server and takes > inputs from the Flex front end and returns the outputs. As long as they don't mind telling someone else (under NDA / n

Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Andriy Panas
Have a look at AS3XLS library http://code.google.com/p/as3xls/ Example of the usage: http://ippblog.intuit.com/blog/2010/06/flex-to-excel-or-excel-to-flex-now-that-is-the-question.html -- Best regards, Andriy Panas On 29 June 2010 17:10, Paul Andrews wrote: > > > On 29/06/2010 10:43, dorkie

Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Andrews
On 29/06/2010 10:43, dorkie dork from dorktown wrote: all your questions will be answered with google spreadsheets and google domain key... The idea is that the user has a slick UI and doesn't have access to the formulas, so I'm not sure Google Spreadsheets helps. Ideally I need a spreads

Re: [flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-29 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
all your questions will be answered with google spreadsheets and google domain key... On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: > > > I have a potential client who has an excel spreadsheet they'd like to > make into a "proper" application, delivered via a web page. Problem is > that t

[flexcoders] Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-28 Thread Paul Andrews
I have a potential client who has an excel spreadsheet they'd like to make into a "proper" application, delivered via a web page. Problem is that they are protective of the formulas used in the spreadsheet and don't want them running on the client (I may talk to them about that again). As far a