Enhance the Excel UDF that comes with AutoIt (poll)

[water]

New versions of Microsoft Office have been released since the last changes were made to the Excel UDFs. The new extensions (e.g. xlsx) are not (fully) supported and new functions are missing, performance for some functions needs to be enhanced etc.

Some necessary modifications might lead to script breaking changes.

To estimate the impact this will have on the community I would like you to answer the questions of this poll or add a comment to this thread.

Please answer the first question of the poll even if you don't use the Excel UDF (but only the first question)!

Edited October 13, 2012 by water

[water]

Would you please be so kind to answer the questions of this poll?

Based on the resulst a few design decisions for the Excel UDF will be made.

The more users vote, the better!

Thanks!

[Chad2]

I occasionally use Excel in my projects. I have found times in the past few years that I had to use work arounds for xlsx files.

I would like to see the Excel UDF updated. Any reason not to release an ExcelX UDF? Although I'm sure most functions would be redundant.

[water]

The Excel UDF that now comes with AutoIt has a "few" limitations.

Most users voted that they wouldn't have a problem with a complete rewrite of the Excel UDF - including script breaking changes.

So I have started to rewrite the UDF from scratch. An early is already available for users to play with.

As feedback comes in a bit slow I decided to finish the rewrite of the Word UDF and then continue with the Excel UDF. So it will take some time until a beta version will be available.

If there are any functions you want to see in the new UDF please drop me a note!

[Mun]

How far along with fixed width importing? I would love to see how you implement this in autoit.

[water]

I haven't coded anything yet because demand for such a function was quite

Is fixed width importing a need to have or nice to have for you?

[Mun]

I was able to convert basic syntax for fix width text to excel importing.

[ Not sure if this help anyone out. Took me awhile to understand it.

[water]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to convert it to AutoIt. If the demand is high enough I'm going to implement it in my Excel UDF.

[Xandy]

Please answer the first question of the poll even if you don't use the Excel UDF (but only the first question)!

I was unable to supply only the answer to the first question. I get an error says I have to answer all of the questions.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Xandy