RE: Octave 5.2 io package

[steph]

Hi Philip

This is certainly not a priority. I have a fairly complex model developed 
entirely in Matlab and I could run the model in Octave with minimal changes. I 
think this is a compliment to the Octave Developers!


Steph

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> 
Sent: Saturday, 15 February 2020 21:42
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Octave 5.2 io package

Hi Steph,

Please keep the mailing list in cc: or to:

The message is deliberately shown; there used to be, and in selected cases 
there still are, good reasons for emitting it.
But admittedly these days the majority of users just use the built-in OCT 
interface which is fairly OK and fast for .xlsx, painfully slow for .ods, and 
simply never bother or don't know about e.g., Java-based spreadsheet I/O 
interfaces that may work (sometimes much) better for them.

Your point is taken; you're not the first one to bring this up either. I have 
some ideas on how to change it but ATM I'm working on getting
io-2.6.0 released and due to other priorities I'm afraid I'll have to postpone 
this issue for a next release.

Thanks

Philip


address@hidden wrote:
> Thank you very much Philip.

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> My routines read several Excel data files, my question is, can the message be 
> suppressed? The message only show up once per session, you are correct. It 
> just tells me something that I know already.
> 
> Thanks again for your time
> 
> Steph
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Help-octave <help-octave-bounces+steph=address@hidden> On 
> Behalf Of PhilipNienhuis
> Sent: Friday, 14 February 2020 23:24
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Octave 5.2 io package
> 
> steph wrote
>> I have successfully installed JAVA (64bit) and the IO package. When I 
>> use IO in a .m script the output in the command window is "Detected 
>> XLS interfaces:", any output produced by script follows this. Any 
>> advice on how to suppress the "Detected XLS interfaces:"?
> 
> That message is supposed to show up just once per Octave session. The 
> function that emits this message, xlsopen.m, scans for spreadsheet support 
> I/O and stores found interfaces in persistent variables.
> 
> Based upon your description, one possibility is that your scripts contain a 
> "clear -f" command somewhere; that's the most obvious way those persistent 
> variables will be wiped.
> Another possibility is that you open spreadsheet files with different 
> interfaces each time. Can also happen if in one script a spreadsheet file is 
> opened with a specifically requested interface, and in another script no 
> interface is specified so xlsopen.m falls back to the default interface (OCT).
> 
> That's about all I can say here without further info from your side about 
> what your scripts actually do with spreadsheet files.
> 
> BTW I decapitalized the subject line, we don't like shouting :-)
> 
> HTH
> Philip
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