xlw plus

granchio · Post by **granchio** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:19 pm

My colleague has been playing around with xlw, and more or less it's all ok, including in VS2010. I have been testing the addin generated, and I have a couple of questions that we couldn't answer between ourselves:

1) if I load the addin before loading an .xla addin, I get a crash right away. Anybody seen similar behaviour?

2) is there a handle in XLW that allows to use the help hyperlink of the function dialogue box in excel (I mean the blue [u]Help on this function[/u] in the shift-f3 dialogue)?

thanks

mj · Post by mj » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:33 pm

re 2) we have discussed the possibility of creating .chm files which would make this work but no one's done anything on it yet.

re 1) news to me. But i never use .xla files.

granchio · Post by **granchio** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:41 am

thanks mj.

on (1), i should have also said that if I reverse the loading order, it works. worrying, but I cannot say categorically it is because of xlw.

on (2), it's useful to know that we are not just missing something obvious

mj · Post by mj » Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:26 am

Is there strong demand for .chm files?

Hansi · Post by **Hansi** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:27 pm

"Is there strong demand for .chm files?"

In my experience I'd say no. We did use them for a project done with http://www.add-in-express.com/ which supports them but nobody ever used them. But then again that may just be related to people's inability to read any kind of a manual.

For the xlw's I generally just leave a txt file or a pdf explaining the functions included in the install directory.

AVt · Post by **AVt** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:41 pm

@admin

SIP, only a petition: would you mind to enforce line breaks in screig's post (2009-10-23)?

It would make the thread more readable again w.r.t. page width.

sc · Post by sc » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:24 pm

Support for Visual Studio 2010 has been added to XLW codebase as development for XLW5. Snapshots of the current XLW dev can and will be placed here

mj · Post by mj » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:15 pm

updated package of the Dev5 xlw:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xlw/files/xlw/xlw%205DEV/xlw-5DEV-28Mar2011.exe/download

The major changes compared to the previous Dev5 release are:

Excel 2010 support

64-bit xll support

Improved multi-threading stability

XLOPER string fixes

It's planned to support building 64 bit dll's with gcc as well as converting all the .NET code.

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:38 pm

thanks MJ, my old version of XLA was blowing up my later versions of Excel.

mj · Post by mj » Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:17 am

i haven't done much for a while: it's all Narinder and John.