Re: [OctDev] ODS (OpenOffice.org Calc) read support added to IO package

2011-07-16 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Philip Nienhuis wrote: > Steph Bredenhann wrote: >> Hi Philip > >> octave-3.2.4:9> odsfinfo ('Protocol.ods') >> warning: No support for OpenOffice.org .ods I/O Aw, here's a message from odsopen >> error: matrix cannot be indexed with . >> error: evaluating argument list element number 1

Re: [OctDev] ODS (OpenOffice.org Calc) read support added to IO package

2011-07-16 Thread Steph Bredenhann
Hi Philip My report back: octave-3.2.4:9> ods = odsopen ('Protocol.ods', 0) warning: No support for OpenOffice.org .ods I/O ods = [](0x0) octave-3.2.4:10> odsclose (ods) warning: return argument missing - ods invocation not reset. error: matrix cannot be indexed with . error: evaluating argument

Re: [OctDev] ODS (OpenOffice.org Calc) read support added to IO package

2011-07-16 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Steph Bredenhann wrote: > Hi Philip > octave-3.2.4:9> odsfinfo ('Protocol.ods') > warning: No support for OpenOffice.org .ods I/O > error: matrix cannot be indexed with . > error: evaluating argument list element number 1 > error: evaluating argument list element number 1 > error: called from: >

Re: [OctDev] ODS (OpenOffice.org Calc) read support added to IO package

2011-07-16 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Hi Steph: Steph Bredenhann wrote: > The result of the chk_spreadsheet_support is now: : > Some class libs lacking yet... > : > Trying to add missing java class libs to javaclasspath... : > Some other class libs still lacking... On second thought, I think these messages are confusing. I'll try

Re: [OctDev] ODS (OpenOffice.org Calc) read support added to IO package

2011-07-16 Thread Steph Bredenhann
Hi Philip Oh, in this field I am a novice, but I hope to make a contribution to Octave in the future as it is just a great program. And some trivia, I have lots of experience with Fortran programming in the Windows world, but since I registered for my PhD at the Delft University of Technolog

Re: [OctDev] ODS (OpenOffice.org Calc) read support added to IO package

2011-07-16 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Hi Steph, Take note of my comments between chk_spreadsheet_support's output... Steph Bredenhann wrote: > As reported previously the symlink didn't work so I have implemented > the hack as suggested by Michael and recompiled the JAVA package. Good on you! IIRC you claimed about being a "novice"

Re: [OctDev] ODS (OpenOffice.org Calc) read support added to IO package

2011-07-16 Thread Steph Bredenhann
As reported previously the symlink didn't work so I have implemented the hack as suggested by Michael and recompiled the JAVA package. I have now made some progress! However, I still can't read the .ods file The result of the chk_spreadsheet_support is now: chk_spreadsheet_support ('/usr/lib/j

[OctDev] Problems with a few octave packages under octave-3.4.2

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am unable to build the following packages with octave-3.4.2. This is using FreeBSD. es, pt_br, communications. I was able to build symbolic using the patch at http://www.baycom.org/~tom/octave/. But his patch for communications didn't fix most of the compile errors. I was able to build fi