Rewrite of Excel classes.
Later we included it in our plugin collection and a couple of wishes came. First our classes didn't do well with text encoding. They read only binary xls files and not the newer xml based files. But biggest problem was performance. Especially with large files.
How to solve those problems?
Well, one reason you use plugins is that you want to save time and avoid recreating the wheel. So do we. We decided to go with libXL, a library for reading and writing excel files. The new plugin includes features like this:
- Read and Write Excel files.
- no need for Microsoft Excel (this is not OLE)
- Generate new files from scratch
- Extract data from Excel files
- Edit existing files
- Supports Excel 97-2003 binary formats (xls) and Excel 2007/2010 xml formats (xlsx).
- Fully unicode compatible.
- Crossplatform solution for Mac, Linux and Windows.
- Fast.
Our old plugin will be removed from official releases.