Re: Windows Package

[Martin Helm]

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010 18:08:25 schrieb John W. Eaton:
> On 21-Jul-2010, John Hudock wrote:
> | I did also try to retreive the package from
> | http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php after I installed the 3.2.4
> | version of Octave and found the Windows package still empty, with no
> | luck. Even the description of the package at
> | http://octave.sourceforge.net/windows/overview.html shows all the
> | functions not implemented. So I can only imagine that there is an updated
> | version somewhere, but it is not at all clear where.
> |
> | My pkg list shows:
> | >>> pkg list
> |
> | Package Name       | Version | Installation directory
> | -------------------+---------+-----------------------
> |
> |           oct2mat *|   1.0.7 | ...\share\octave\packages\oct2mat-1.0.7
> 
> I don't know whether this will fix the problem you are having with
> xlsopen, but you do NOT want to have the oct2mat package installed in
> Octave.
> 
> As I understand it, the functions in this package are intended to be
> used in Matlab, to provide some functions that are commonly used in
> Octave but not present in Matlab.  But the functions ARE present in
> Octave, and the ones in the oct2mat packages do not do the right thing
> for Octave, so I think it is wrong for the Windows installer to even
> offer it as an installation option for Octave.
> 
> This package has caused so much trouble for Windows users of Octave
> that it might be worth creating a new Windows installer for Octave
> 3.2.4 that does not include the oct2mat package at all, or that does
> not allow it to be installed with Octave, or at least that does not
> install the functions that override existing Octave functions.
> 
> jwe
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I suspected first something like this, but it seems not the problem.
I mnade a small xls with some numbers and a few character fields and open it

octave-3.2.4.exe:1> pkg load oct2mat
octave-3.2.4.exe:2> pkg load windows
octave-3.2.4.exe:3> xls = xlsopen("c:\\mappe1.xls")
Supported interfaces:  Excel (COM) OK.
xls =
{
  xtype = COM
  app =

<COM object _Application (0x0x259604)>

  filename = c:\mappe1.xls
  workbook =

<COM object _Workbook (0x0x25aa0c)>

  changed = 0
  limits = [](0x0)
}

(The pkg load oct2mat is only to see if it leads to a problem I do not 
recommend that it is loaded

Disable with
pkg rebuild -noauto oct2mat).


Is there something special in the xsl file 
C:\Documents and Settings\jhudock\My Documents\Tests\OctaveTest.xls
which can be the reason.

Just to be sure can you try with a xls in a path without white spaces (this is 
really aonly a wild guess).

- mh