On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > (A continuation of > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/669c9c0b63a555ba) > > A spreadsheet in Sage. Social Calc is by Dan Bricklin, who was > involved with building the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc. Artistic 2.0 > License, which FSF says is GPL-compatible. Pure Javascript, with some > PERL. Seems responsive enough, though I did not stress it. >
Looks very interesting but I confess I am a javascript and perl ignoramus. Can this program import xls files? How hard would it be to include in Sage, say as an experimental package? > 1) Download a tar or zip file from https://github.com/DanBricklin/socialcalc > and unpack anywhere > > 2) chmod 700 socialcalcserver.pl (or whatever) > > 3) Execute socialcalcserver.pl > > Now a small web server will fire up and you get back a URL to that > server you can point to with your browser. Allows for saving files, > just answer with defaults on first use. > > 4) Apply http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11489 (Bruce > Cohen's iframe command) > > 5) In a worksheet run html.iframe("http://127.0.0.1:6557/";, 600, > 1000), adjusted to taste, and/or port > > OR, the idly curious can see a screenshot at > > http://buzzard.ups.edu/misc/social-calc-sage.png > > This is used by the One Laptop Per Child project on the XO, and there > seems to be a commercial project which wraps it with users, logins, > site admin, etc. > > Maybe there is is enough exposed to > > (a) make it easy to tightly integrate in a Sage worksheet, or attach > to a command-line session > > (b) and/or implement Dan Drake's idea of allowing Sage commands in > cells > > Rob > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
