Re: Octave 5.2 io package

[Philip Nienhuis]

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
>
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> 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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