Re: gnumeric and bonobo

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Separate from bonobo, I believe jody has written an experimental plugin
that allows the import of live stock market data. Everything else should
now be easy  ;-)

Andreas

Travis Whitton wrote:

>>I was wondering if it was possible to make a component that
>>exported a grid of constantly-updating numeric data, and plug that data
>>into a spreadsheet.
>>
>
> I was trying to do something very similar to this in my job here at an
> environmental lab. We have an insturment that sends data to a computer's
> serial port, and I wrote a small python class to acquire the data and
> place it into a data structure(class). At the time, gnorba had been
> antiquated, and bonobo was disabled. I've basically been dead in the
> water on that project since then(not to worry, many other projects ;-).
> Can anybody tell me if the bonobo component is now mature enough to
> perform that kind of interaction? If so, it would open the possibility
> for an open-source "software wedge" style application that could be
> _very_ useful in a number of circumstances.
>
> For those unfamiliar with software wedge, it's an application that
> grabs data being sent to the serial port and then throws it at any
> application that supports DDE. It's mainly used with Excel, and using it
> here at work, I have the incredible displeasure of getting to code all
> wedge code in VB. My boss is pro linux/gnumeric, but we've been waiting
> for bonobo. If it's reintegrated into gnumeric, can anybody point me to
> the docs?
>
> -
> Travis Whitton <whitton atlantic net>
>



--
Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow