[ANN] Spreadsheet-Excel 0.3.5 released

== What is it?
Spreadsheet::Excel is a port of John McNamara's Perl module
"Spreadsheet::WriteExcel". It allows you to generate Microsoft Excel compatible
spreadsheets (in Excel 95 format) on *any* platform. These spreadsheets are
viewable with most other popular spreadsheet programs, including Gnumeric.
Spreadsheet::Excel was originally written by Daniel J. Berger and is now
maintained by Hannes Wyss.

== How to get it?
gem install spreadsheet-excel
(you may have to wait a couple of hours for the mirror-fairy to come around
to your neighbourhood..)

== Changes: 0.3.5 - 18-Aug-2006
* Instead of making OLEWriter inherit from IO, Spreadsheet::Excel now just
  delegates the IO method calls to an IO object reference in an instance
  variable. That way the developer can specify an IO or IO-like object to which
  OLEWriter will write. This allows developers to use StringIO objects (or any
  IO-like object).
  Thanks go to Daniel Amelang for the feature request, the patch, and most of
  this description.
* Implemented a Feature Request by Randal Santia: it is now possible to specify
  alignment and border as additional values in the configuration-hash passed to
  Format.new as if alignment= or border= were called.

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Hannes Wyss

Has anyone tried to support strings longer than 255 characters (the cell format is different from ordinary one) ?
I've looked into Perl's port and I realized that more thorough knowledge of excel binary format is required.

lopex

URL, anyone? :slight_smile:

    Is it http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet/ ?

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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:17:23PM +0900, Hannes Wyss wrote:

== What is it?
Spreadsheet::Excel is a port of John McNamara's Perl module
"Spreadsheet::WriteExcel". It allows you to generate Microsoft Excel
compatible
spreadsheets (in Excel 95 format) on *any* platform. These spreadsheets are
viewable with most other popular spreadsheet programs, including Gnumeric.
Spreadsheet::Excel was originally written by Daniel J. Berger and is now
maintained by Hannes Wyss.

== How to get it?
gem install spreadsheet-excel
(you may have to wait a couple of hours for the mirror-fairy to come around
to your neighbourhood..)

== Changes: 0.3.5 - 18-Aug-2006
* Instead of making OLEWriter inherit from IO, Spreadsheet::Excel now just
delegates the IO method calls to an IO object reference in an instance
variable. That way the developer can specify an IO or IO-like object to
which
OLEWriter will write. This allows developers to use StringIO objects (or
any
IO-like object).
Thanks go to Daniel Amelang for the feature request, the patch, and most of
this description.
* Implemented a Feature Request by Randal Santia: it is now possible to
specify
alignment and border as additional values in the configuration-hash passed
to
Format.new as if alignment= or border= were called.

--
Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso@foton.es> - http://www.foton.es
EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

That's the one, and also:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/spreadsheet/
(And http://rubyspreadsheet.sourceforge.net - which is to be moved to RubyForge)
Apologies for the omission.

Hannes

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On 8/21/06, Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso@foton.es> wrote:

    URL, anyone? :slight_smile:

    Is it http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet/ ?