Abacus
is a small, light and easy to use
spreadsheet being developed as our graduation project in our University IST , Portugal. Written in Tcl/Tk plus C++ Extensions
Attributes edit
- website (previous)
- archive.org
- website (previous)
- http://web.archive.org/web/20051103072631/http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html
- email
- a b a c u s at a l g u s dot i n e s c dot p t
See Also edit
- TkSoroban
- a Tcl implementation of a classical mechanical abacus
Download edit
- ftp.tcl.tk
- abacus-0.9.13.tar.gz
Description edit
In general, an
abacus is a mechanical calculating tool, up to today used in Russia, Japan, Korea and China. See
TkSoroban for an emulation of the Japanese kind.
Abacus is a Tcl/Tk/C++/C spreadsheet developed for Linux. It supports graphics, printing, saving and loading different formats, cell editing, sorting, column and row manipulation, cell formats, undo/redo, formulas, and more.
The programming team (in Portugal) also references a tool called
Abacus for the Palm Pilot; however I don't believe it has any Tcl/Tk connection.
Comments edit
josh: It would be fun to be able to play around with an exe Windows version of this program, compiled in this manner: See
How to compile a TCL script into an EXE program.
In fact this program is really complete. It has all sorts of spreadsheet functions built into it. The Portugal Tcl-Tk connection did really
fine precision work!
However, I for one would be pretty happy to simply be able to create small unpretentious spreadsheets; I won't need all the sophistication Abacus has. Therefore a small -call it-
Mini Abacus stripped of many functions and holding in a meg or so would do the job perfectly for me and I believe for many of us.
