Re: [Gnuplot-info] Suggestion

[Andrius K. <and...@ma...>]

Hello,

> But that's not actually my main point here.  That is whether it makes
> sense for *us* to try to parse a proprietary file format like Excel's.  I
> think it doesn't.  Ultimately only Excels knows how to parse its files, so
> it's Excel's responsibility to export to something usable by the rest of
> the world.

well, from the times I used Excel, I remember that it has some scripting
language, Excel Basic, I think. So if people want some integration of
gnuplot into the Excel's GUI, it probably would be meaningful to do it
with the help of some Excel script. It could even be some wizard, which
allows to select the chart type and the data columns and sends that data
to gnuplot. This way, the parsing of excel files would not be necessary.
And a good integration with Excel's gui could be achieved. Just my 2cents.
Andrius