Excel Lib 1.4

[Bob Sneidar]

Looks like Excel_Lib is a paid product to the tune of $99/year. For my purposes, that is more than I want to spend simply for the convenience of scraping some data out of an exported Crystal Reports file. 

Windows is trying to decompress what looks like a compressed vbscript, but Livecode for Windows balks at the decompress command and says it is not compressed data, although it certainly looks like it is in the variable watcher. I suspect it's been corrupted somehow. 

At any rate, I will probably look at getting the data from exported PDFs instead. 

Bob S


> On Mar 17, 2022, at 09:47 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I have v1.4, not sure about the licensing. I will contact zryip presently. Meanwhile I was able to create a separate version of Excel_Lib. I just tested it and it works. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Mar 17, 2022, at 09:39 , matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Are you using the open source or the commercial version?
>> If i am not wrong then only the commercial license is available as 1.5 and the open source license is 1.2 or so.
>> 
>> If you have the commercial license then you can download the most current version using the username and password that Zryip should have submitted to you.
>> If you do not have those credentials, you could send an email to zryip.theslug at gmail.com <mailto:zryip.theslug at gmail.com> and ask him to get access to the download area for the commercial lib.
>> He normally replies quickly.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Matthisa
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 17.03.2022 um 16:48 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>> 
>>> Also if anyone has version 1.5 of the library, would it be possible to send that to me off list? 
>>> 
>>> Bob S
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 17, 2022, at 08:43 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone use Excel_Lib? How do you get it to work?? Opening the documentation stack loads the necessary libraries and stacks, but the actual library is a substack of the documentation stack! Also, there are handlers which call on the PROPERTIES of that stack! So I cannot just copy the code out to a script only stack! 
>>>> 
>>>> This would mean I would have to include the entire documentation stack in my stackfiles for any project that uses it. That doesn't seem right to me. 
>>>> 
>>>> Bob S
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 16, 2022, at 17:26 , Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Wow. The excel_lib I need is actually a substack of the documentation stack! Whaaaa???
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bob S
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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