Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

[Curry Kenworthy]

Ben wrote:

 > I want to import some data where some of the text in a
 > cell may contain some parts which are in italics or bold.

SpreadLib doesn't have styles for IMPORT yet, but SpreadOut already has 
them for EXPORT. Text size, bold/italic/etc, pics. At least my dev 
version does! I need to wrap up this version for public release - I'll 
try to speed that up and get it posted soon.

(Depending on how close they are to completion, FieldTrip may be first 
in line for update, because I had several requests for it and haven't 
forgotten.)

SpreadOut was lucky and got the style features and pics implemented 
first, and it's pretty cool to save stylin' spreadsheets from Livecode. 
I'll have to add those features to the import code in another version. 
Perhaps italic and bold can come sooner than the rest, we'll see.

There's so much that Excel and other spreadsheets can do, really amazing 
and handy. Using the genuine and original SpreadLib library, it's easy 
to import to a LiveCode field or array and use the data to empower all 
sorts of projects.

Best wishes,

Curry Kenworthy

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