SGI: Development

Hi guys!

I wonder if there is some kind of OSF/Motif spreadsheet or datagrid available in IRIX 6.5.x?

Thanks in advance

There's always Oleo: http://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/

The Fermilab plotting widgets, which includes a grid widget, are truly outstanding: http://cepa.fnal.gov/CPD/nirvana/

Thanks, I think I'll try oleo!

I've been programming in Xt/Motif for most of the last 20 years, here's a brief pictorial representation of how loathesome it can be:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- ... 00002.html

Wow, the development version of Oleo is almost 12 years old! There used to be some really good Motif hackers working on it, Danny Backx and Scott Tringali, couple of the guys behind NEdit and Lesstif. I guess once Gnome threw their weight behind Gnumeric they all just figured what the hell...

Even older still, there was a spreadsheet program called Prophet that was written in the '90s. I don't remember if it used Motif or Athena.

Yep I remember it:

"PROPHET is currently available on UNIX and ULTRIX workstations with Motif, OpenLook, and DECwindows windowing systems. These workstations include Sun-4, SPARCstation, and DECstation 5000. Additional ports and continuing enhancements are planned."

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC338184/

Speaking of oldies, I just grabbed Maxwell. I wasn't successful compiling it years ago but was even stupider then (if that's possible.) It could make a nice little word processor for Irix. Maybe needs an incoming doc2rtf filter but that should be possible. I was never that happy with Ted. OpenOffice is better than nothing but essentially, it sucks.

BSDero - what do you mean, "datagrid" ? There's a *ton* of those floating around, if you just want a grid. Many of these have diasppeared but wander through here :

http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linuxlist ... .html#AAAA


Speaking of spreadsheets, kind of funny story : a few years ago we did some work for a global enterprise, leveraging American assets overseas to produce a higher standard of living at home, every job lost to manufacturing creates five domestically (stacking the boxes ?) bla bla bla. We did a little research, then used Excel as a spreadhseet to calculate different results from different electricity plans. We ended up saving them over a thousand dollars a month.

They were amazed. Every single person in that office used Excel daily - for graph paper. A couple of them had a vague sense that maybe it could do more than that, but there was general amazement that you could put in different numbers in different cells to see what would happen in other places. It's so gratifying to see how in this highly-educated knowledge society, our college graduates are such innovative users of the technology.

And oh yeah ... they all cried daily about how I wouldn't let them upgrade to Office 2007. They really needed the new features ...

I get spreadsheets all the time where the only reason they used Excel was because they found it easier to lay out tables there than in Word. (Assuming they knew it was possible to create tables in Word...)

This practice ranks right up there with the one where they publish an article on the super expensive, cutting edge, best-of-breed content management system that runs the internal web portal, where the article says "Something important, please read >this<." where "this" is a link. To a Word document, stored on a different content management system like FileNet/P8 or Sharepoint. And in the Word document - after everything finishes chasing links and starting several more apps on your PC - are two paragraphs of plain, unformatted text...