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Spreadsheet processing and graph generation
by AC on Sunday 09/Jul/2006, @20:30

One area where Kross can really help is automatic spreadsheets and generating graphs based on those spreadsheets. Everyone likes graphs since they make presentations look real spiffy and the presenters look real smart ;)

Jokes aside, lots of diverse fields such as accounting, marketing, biology, engineering deal with huge amounts of numerical data that is stored in spreadsheets. The people that analyze this data are most often *not* programmers so an easy scripting framework would make their lives a whole lot easier. The real advantage would be bringing KDE into the offices of all these professionals.

While M$ may not excel at many things, it has in my opinion done a good job with Visual Basic for Applications which brings together their whole office suite and makes it easily programmable. I suggest KOffice and Kross devs take a look at VB for Apps as a successful model.

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Re: Spreadsheet processing and graph generation
by Cyrille Berger on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @01:39

Kross support will be added to kspread in the upcoming 1.6 release of KOffice (thanks to Isaac), currently it's limited to accessing the data in the spreadsheet. And our plan is to let our user tell us if they need anything else. In that area too, we follow the general KOffice policy, lets users tell us what they need, and do not try to implements every possible features ;)

So if anyone feels limited by what we offer, then just tell us :)

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