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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:10:56 -0400
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Subject: Re: Giving interact with desktop permission to cyg_server
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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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

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