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mtCellEdit

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mtCellEdit is a lightweight spreadsheet program that I created from scratch. It is a small, no frills program which is designed to handle simple day to day spreadsheet tasks. I have put the most important facilities I want into a small customized program which means I can avoid the problems of larger programs such as slow operating speeds and overcomplicated user interfaces. The GUI is presented using Qt5.

The core of the program is a shared C/C++ library which can be used by any C/C++ program to read, write and manipulate spreadsheets. The source code suite also contains other example programs that use this library, such as command line tools to allow scripts to access the API.

The default file format mtCellEdit uses is portable and transparent as it is a ZIP file containing TSV text files. I deliberately designed it this way so that data can be extracted and read by any modern spreadsheet program on any operating system without requiring mtCellEdit. Over the years I have been frustrated by binary and XML formats that make data only accessible via a single program (or by me wasting time manually converting each file, or by me writing a file format conversion program). This format ensures that my data never becomes stranded, and can be manipulated by whichever tool I choose for a particular job (i.e. spreadsheet programs, text editors, command line tools, etc).

System Requirements

mtCellEdit is designed for GNU/Linux operating systems. Hardware wise it has been tested on x86_32, x86_64, and ARM_32 platforms.

License

The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Read more about this here https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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