X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20120329080630.GA30721@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120329143914.GH30721@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:10:56 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Giving interact with desktop permission to cyg_server From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 03/30/2012 04:31 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 29 07:25, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>>> >>>> Oh well, thanks for the answer, Corinna, even though the news is not >>>> good. Now to attempt to deal with this problem with asking the >>>> question of the developers "Could you use some other form of input >>>> than an Excel spreadsheet! - geeze!" ;-) >>> >>> CSV files? >> >> Or XML, modern Excel produces both. >> > I've asked about the need to use a spreadsheet and it seems the spreadsheet > is used for both input and output of the script. The spreadsheet is read as > input and then annotated and updated and given back. Personally I think the > whole thing should be re-written as a web app... The users wanting it their way is what keeps us employed doing development work. Otherwise we would have stopped developing a long time ago because everyone would live with just the way it works now. :D We're still developing in VBA scripting producing excel reports connecting directly to the DB from excel. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple