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spreadshith compatible with XLS format (Users)

posted by marcov, 11.08.2016, 21:36

> someone know a DOS spreadsheth compatible (read/write whitout any
> additional stuff) with M$ .XLS win 98 format?

There are FPC/Lazarus components that can read/write XLS and XLSX in various versions and success, and it doesn't depend on external dependencies. There are both visual and non visual components.

The visual components (that embed a mini spreadsheet in your app) depend on Lazarus, and thus won't work on dos. The non visual might work out of the box with go32v2.

It is a memory hog though, so for large sheets you will need lots of memory. (which is why 16-bit dos support is probably hopeless)

The components is called fpspreadsheet, and is in the "contributed code" lazarus-ccr repository on sf.net

If you just need to get some data from/to XLS that could be a way. I use it to generate work schedules in a Linux service.

Complete thread:

• spreadshith compatible with XLS format - iw2evk, 09.08.2016, 11:37
  • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - Oso2k, 10.08.2016, 19:57
  • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - marcov, 11.08.2016, 21:36
  • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - Laaca, 11.08.2016, 22:37
    • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - iw2evk, 12.08.2016, 08:53
      • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - Laaca, 12.08.2016, 10:53
      • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - glennmcc, 13.08.2016, 01:05
      • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - RayeR, 16.08.2016, 17:47
  • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - Doug, 12.08.2016, 20:44
    • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - iw2evk, 13.08.2016, 21:58
      • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - bretjohn, 17.08.2016, 18:37
        • spreadshith compatible with XLS format - GNUser, 12.09.2017, 16:11