Re: [Swig-devel] A SWIG extension targeting Microsoft Excel

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Michael Ho wrote:
> Dear SWIG development team,
> 
> We are a team of Software Engineering students from the Rochester
> Institute of Technology who as part of our senior project have developed
> a SWIG module targeting Microsoft Excel.  Excel has a C API which
> enables users to load user DLLs and call their own C/C++ code from
> within spreadsheets.
> 
> The project status and source code can be viewed at:
> http://www.se.rit.edu/~swiggles/ via the Wiki link.
> 
> The SWIG Excel module fulfills three main goals:
> 1)      automating the process of writing to the Microsoft Excel C API;
> 2)      convert between C/C++ types and the XLOPER type, Microsoft
> Excel’s general-purpose variant data type;
> 3)      handling objects in an environment that does not natively
> support the concept of objects.
> 
> The project has been sponsored by JPMorgan.  After we graduate, JPMorgan
> plans to continue the development and maintenance of the SWIG Excel module.
> 
> We would like to understand the level of interest from SWIG users in
> this module.   If it is of limited interest, we expect that our sponsors
> will continue its development privately.  If interest is stronger and
> more widespread, it could be contributed for inclusion in the main SWIG
> distribution.
> 
> Please let us know any thoughts or views – we will collate off-list
> feedback and summarize.
> 

I am very interested in this and I'm sure others will be as well. It is
something that I had in mind to do myself long term if someone else
hadn't. It might take a week or so for me to take a good look at it, but
if it is any good, I'd like to see it incorporated in the main swig
repository.

William