On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the purpose of the excel2utils file?
This unit was the very first version of fpspreadsheet. It is completely obsolete, and I just kept it in the website because I still haven't written docs for the new version. I would recommend against using it. Use the code in subversion instead. > I was able to run the sample on the site and create a test.xls. > However, when I tried the examples/excel5demo/excel5demo.lpr one I got it to > compile and it runs without error, but no file is created. In which operating system did you run it? Excel 5 needs the generation of a OLE documented. I read the specs and considered writing a OLE writer, but I needed support only for Windows and I was out of time, so I just called the OLE dll, which means that it only works in Windows. Or this is what happens as far as I remember. > Given that I need sheets I pretty much need the xlsbiff5 format and not the > simple 2.1 method on the website.. Is that a true statement? Yes, this is a true statement. OOXML and OpenDocument would also work, but you will need to improve support for them in fpspreadsheet. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
