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- From: d6caps@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Bergland)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Data links to Excel?
- Message-ID: <BzInst.853@news.chalmers.se>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 17:12:28 GMT
- Sender: news@news.chalmers.se
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
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- OLE is fine, but it isn't really what I want.
- Is it possible to use for instance Excel as a Chart Engine, feeding with
- data out of my own picking, and updating for instance once a minute?
- I wouldn't want to re-invent the wheel and make my own diagram engine, when
- all spreadsheet applications have exactly what I want (or rather, my customers).
- The easiest way would be to, somehow, create a text-based link to a spreadsheet
- (tab-delimited text would be slow, but if it works, fine). If I could get ahold
- of the internal data structures of for instance Excel, I could perhaps send
- more customized data to be sent on to an Excel chart.
- OLE only does objects, no interpretation of the object data is done (from what
- I've seen).
- Would the Mac system 7 subscribe and publish work, and if so, why can't Windows
- do that?
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- Anyone?
- Per
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