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Excel-Lite: Hey coder! This spreadsheet's for you!

Excel-Lite (XLL) has all the calculating power of regular Excel, but without the bloat, the baggage, the bulge, the.. the.. obligatory overheads, the albatrossicle accoutrements, the embarrasing encumbrances, the chaff.

For generating SQL statements, or HTML, or any sort of code, for manipulating raw data, you can't go past XLL.

There is no limit to the number of rows or columns you can use. No limit to the number of sheets.

XLL does not reformat your data. It won't drop the '0' from the front of a number. It won't alter the format of a field that happens to resemble a date. Currency symbols don't confuse it.

It has excellent support for Regular Expressions. Plus a genuinely comprehensive 'reveal-codes' mode to help you get to grips with your data.

Okay, there's no ability to set text colours or bold or italics or varying fonts or font-sizes, and there are no charting capabilities and even no printing (without plug-ins). But those features are outside the intended use of the product. The trade-off is a fast, versatile, bloat-free application, targeted at programmers and information-workers.

It's quick to load. And damn quick at performing calculations. It takes up about 100k of memory (excluding spreadsheets) and has a versatile undo/redo capability that appears to be unlimited.

Files are internally represented (and stored) as XML. Hence spreadsheet searches can be performed with XPath!

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[Comments closed due to greek spammers.]

'nelix' on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:22:56 GMT, writes:

class SpreadSheet:
_cells = {}
def __setitem__(self, key, formula):
self._cells[key] = formula
def getformula(self, key):
return self._cells[key]
def __getitem__(self, key ):
return eval(self._cells[key], globals(), self)

URL: http://roll.nelix.id.au/



'Shreveport Mike' on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:25:06 GMT, writes:

Whoops--that last link I sent was to something else. That was a link to another Rebol program by Robert Muench that allows you to control Excel. Very cool in itself, but not what I intended to send. (I was going to mention it initially, and change my mind.

Anyway, Rebol's a fun toy; if you haven't played with it yet, I recommend it. I just wish there was more documentation available for it.

URL:



'Shreveport Mike' on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:20:37 GMT, writes:

Regarding Nano-Sheets: I really should have said that you should learn a bit of Rebol to use Nano-Sheets TO ITS FULLEST EXTENT; one can use it as a typical spreadsheet without learning any Rebol.

One thing that's very cool about it is that because it's so small, if you wanted to e-mail a spreadsheet to someone, it's no big deal to send the data AND the application that runs it! It would still probably be significantly smaller than an Excel file.

Anyway, it's pretty cool; try it out!

URL: http://robertmuench.de/projects/excel/



'Shreveport Mike' on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:58:07 GMT, writes:

For Rebol, a great, fun language that also happens to be a (deparenthesized Scheme-ish variant of) Lisp, there is an awesome little freeware opensource application called "Nano-Sheets." Nano-Sheets is a full GUI spreadsheet engine written in less than 2K of Rebol code, and each cell in Nano-Sheets can independently contain and run any Rebol code within it! Tremendously powerful idea whose possibilities I'll leave to your imagination.

Of course, using it means learning a bit of Rebol, which in no way is a bad thing. A nice little project would be to port Nano-Sheets over to Scheme...hmmm.




URL: http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/27454



'Casey Marshall' on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:57:20 GMT, writes:

After the first paragraph I started looking for a download link. What a let-down! :)



'Mike Schinkel [Xtras.Net]' on Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:04:09 GMT, writes:

Hey, what's the chance you couldn't build it quickly with FarPoint's Spread?


URL: http://www.xtras.net/products/fpspreadwinforms.asp



'Mike Schinkel [Xtras.Net]' on Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:03:07 GMT, writes:

Hey, what's the chance you couldn't build it quickly with <a href="FarPoint's Spread?

http://www.xtras.net/products/fpspreadwinforms.asp

URL: http://www.xtras.net



'Sean' on Wed, 19 May 2004 05:18:42 GMT, writes:

Haha, our temp is still struggling with changing column widths and all the other "tricky things like that".

URL:



'JonR' on Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:42:13 GMT, writes:

get up off your arse and code it - this would rock.

there's nothing worse than handing a spreadsheet over to someone, then getting it back covered in some temp's idea of "prettification"

URL: http://www.brock.ac.uk/blogs/jon/



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