[squeak-dev] Re: Spreadsheet in Smalltalk?

Phil pbpublist at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 19:15:47 UTC 2008


Thanks for the clarification re: Analyst as well as your work.  This 
gives me another possible starting point.

Phil

Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> Eliot Miranda schrieb:
>> There's the famous one in the Analyst which allowed cells to contain
>> things like images and rules to rotate them.  But (I think) its
>> ancient history now.  You might find it in a port of the Analyst Georg
>> Heeg made available a while back.  I'd ask him.
> The Analyst is not legally available at the moment (which is a pity,
> since it was a great piece of software at its time).
> We once considered buying the rights to it, but the price tag was a bit
> steep...
>
> I have started implementing a simple spreadsheet in Squeak a while back.
> Like almost all of my toy projects, this never got finished but does
> have some usable code (see attached ZIP file.)
>
> Open a new spreadsheet with "SpreadsheetGridMorph new openInWorld".
> You can enter numbers into the cells, and you may enter rules (start
> with "=", cell refs are written as A1, B1 etc).
> Currently implemented are +-*/ operations.
> The update machinery (which is the heart of a spreadsheet) works nicely.
>
> Everything else is just "boring work to do" :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin
>
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