Re: Export data to Excel
Re: Export data to Excel
- Subject: Re: Export data to Excel
- From: Alex Rice <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:23:15 -0600
On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 03:28 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:
The Excel file format is proprietary to Microsoft, and is a binary
format.
You can't just write stuff to a file whose name ends in .xls :-(
I think the only way you're going to be able to generate XLS is to pay
MS
money to get access to it :-( That's probably what P&L (Mesa) had to do.
This is not exactly correct. One can use MS Office Automation to
manipulate content in Office applications. Admitted I don't know how to
do this from Cocoa, but REALbasic has a MS Office Automation plugin for
Mac, so it's possible to do on Mac OS.
On Windows if one needs to create Office content then use COM interfaces
and use the extensive Visual Basic documentation (included with MS
Office). You don't pay MS. The Office Automation stuff comes for free
with every copy of Office.
I have even done Office automation stuff on Windows via Python, an
open-source scripting language, which has really good COM bindings. But
one can use Visual Basic, C++, Perl whatever.
I know this is absolutely no help for a Cocoa programmer though. :-(
Alex Rice <email@hidden>
Mindlube Software
http://www.mindlube.com/
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