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Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

#91

Post by Aardappel » Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

yardshop wrote: post #90

Aardappel wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, I removed support for 32-bit a while ago. While the code could probably be made to run on 32-bit still without too much trouble, it be quite a bit of work to reintroduce it.

I understand, it's the way of things. Do you perhaps have an archive of older releases?

I haven't.. though if you have visual studio installed, you should be able to check out commit 7b30199cbef49dbdb6f7b10f0fecea3c008e76ec from 2019 which is the last commit before I changed things over to 64-bit.

Note that also requires compiling wxWidgets according to the README.md in that commit, which is incompatible with my current install, otherwise I would have done it for you.

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

#92

Post by yardshop » Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 7:53 PM UTC

Aardappel wrote: post #91

yardshop wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand, it's the way of things. Do you perhaps have an archive of older releases?

I haven't.. though if you have visual studio installed, you should be able to check out commit 7b30199cbef49dbdb6f7b10f0fecea3c008e76ec from 2019 which is the last commit before I changed things over to 64-bit. Note that also requires compiling wxWidgets according to the README.md in that commit, which is incompatible with my current install, otherwise I would have done it for you.

Actually I was able to find an old version via the Internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210624160236/http://strlen.com...

I took a stab and got a version from July 2011 going, then worked forward and ended up with a version from August 2 2019, which may be the version you're mentioning.

I appreciate that you would have compiled it for me! I would like to give it a shot myself some day.

Re: Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

#93

Post by andix » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

Aardappel wrote: post #36

andix wrote: post #7

I like the part where you can do calculations like in classic spread sheet apps, but visualize what your are doing, instead of hiding it behind formula fields. (see this screenshot: http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/images/screenshots/screens... ) But functionality and especially usability of this application is quite limited. It feels more like a proof of concept, than an application for daily use.

It's an app that has been worked on on/off for 13 years, so certainly not intended be "proof of concept".. but yeah, it's a 1 person OSS side project, not a commercial app with UX designers on staff. If you have specific ideas about what is so limiting, please file a github issue.

I liked the way how you can do calculations. But there are not a lot of functions available. Excel has hundreds of functions. I wasn’t even able to calculate an average (sum I could do). Or something like pivot tables.

I totally understand it’s just a one man project, but I would really like to see some of those amazing concepts in a commercial application at the scale of Excel. That’s why I called it a proof of concept.