Re: Any Mac c++ programmers on here?

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From: Jason (yo_at_yo.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:46:33 -0500

"Fredrik Wahlgren" <fredrik.p.wahlgren@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote in message
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> "Jason" <yo@yo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Fredrik Wahlgren" <fredrik.p.wahlgren@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote in
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>> > "Jason" <yo@yo.com> wrote in message
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>> >> "Fredrik Wahlgren" <fredrik.p.wahlgren@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote in
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>> >> > "Jason" <yo@yo.com> wrote in message
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>> >> >> Someone contacted me regarding porting over to OSX an excel addin.
>> >> >> I
>> >> >> would
>> >> >> be using codewarrior 5 on an OSX machine. How doable is this with
>> > version
>> >> > 5?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Is this an xll? It will be more complicated than the Excel 95 SDK
>> >> > suggests.
>> >> > It documented 68k code. You now have to use CFM. Excel is not a
>> >> > Cocoa
>> >> > application. I think it's doable, I managed to create a PPC version
> of
>> >> > a
>> >> > subroutine that took too long under 68k emulation. BTW. How old is
>> > version
>> >> > 5?
>> >> >
>> >> > / Fredrik
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> It's an xla written in c++. I saw something from sailmaker which
> offered
>> >> a
>> >> framework for creating the addin but it required a newer version of
>> >> codewarrior and the excel 95 sdk (which I cannot seem to locate any
>> > where).
>> >>
>> >> I'm not sure of the release date of 5 but I know they're up to 9 now.
>> >> I
>> >> would guess around 2000 that it came out. I don't have it in front of
> me
>> > but
>> >> the person who has it and is offering to let me use it to attempt this
>> > says
>> >> that it does have a patch for writing OSX code which is the version
>> >> I'd
>> > like
>> >> to focus on the most.
>> >>
>> >> I'm just wondering how hard of a conversion it will be. I'm not too
>> >> concerned with learning mac programming overall just getting this to
>> >> work.
>> >>
>> >
>> > If a file has the extension xla, it's written in VBA. Are we talking
> about
>> > the same thing? What does the add-in do? I think the most problematic
> part
>> > is to understand how to make an add-in that doesn't use 68K code. I
> think
>> > it
>> > would be a good idea to make a simple add-in first that simply adds a
> menu
>> > ad possibly a few very simple UDF's.
>> >
>> > / Fredrik
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Well it's a c++ project and I opened and built it in Visual Studio.Net
>> and
>> it produced an xla file which I then "added in" to excel. It's an add in
>> that replaces some manual steps used to create charts and such. It's part
> of
>> a dissertation that this guy is writing.
>>
>> Anyway, he has a powermac running osx 10.2 and codeworks 4 (was 5 but
> found
>> it to be 4) and we're trying to determine if CW 4 can even create add
>> in's
>> for OSX or not and if so how much of a job this would be to convert it.
>>
>> Are there any empty add in projects (perhaps from a SDK or even better an
>> add in wizard or something) that codeworks can build to see if it can do
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Does it really have the xla extension?? Does the add-in you built with
> VS.NET work? If the only purpose is for a dissertaion and it only replaces
> afew manual steps, why not use VBA? Creating an excel add-in seems like
> overkill.
>
> / fredrik
>
>

Yeah it has an xla extension and it works good. It does quite alot, there's
33 .c files. I'm not sure when it was written but I think a while ago and
this guy is now tryng to get it wrapped up and needs a mac version.

The possiblity of creating a version using vba is definately a possibilty
but before I start doing that I'd like to see if I can convert it.

So do you think CW can create add ins?

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