Excel spreadsheet editors

[Ed Cogburn]

StarOffice can load the wirexceledit.xls file, but I've never been able to load a scenario file from within. So StarOffice isn't much help. I don't know anything about Excel and very little about StarOffice.

Being a lazy person, I'd like to see the macros/code/whatever work that Rich and JustAGame have already done, particulary the code that parses the scenario file. Is it possible to extract that information as human readable text? At least get it in Excel's macro/scripting language, instead of the current binary (proprietary) format, please?

[Martinov]

Your question isnt completely clear, though its a cute idea to make an editor that converts the bin file into a txt file and then vice versa, its what a lot of the latest games are doing - hadn't thought of applying it to make older games more accessible.

As far as excel editors, quite a few have been developed for games like panzer general, and nearly all of their makers have left their code 'open' for anyone to use and learn technique, many are available at builders paradise (below) which is a great site.
http://www.strategyplanet.com/panzergeneral/pg2index.html

[Ed Cogburn]

Originally posted by Martinov:
Your question isnt completely clear, though its a cute idea to make an editor that converts the bin file into a txt file and then vice versa, its what a lot of the latest games are doing - hadn't thought of applying it to make older games more accessible.

There has been a PacWar editor for years. WiR hasn't really needed one because of the builtin editor and the editwir.exe that comes with the game.

As far as excel editors, quite a few have been developed for games like panzer general, and nearly all of their makers have left their code 'open' for anyone to use and learn technique

I'm only interested in JustAGames' wirexceledit.xls. I couldn't find anything on it at the URL you gave.

Its not that important, I was just curious.