Card odds drawing tool

Izaak wrote:

So I've using on an Excel sheet that calculates odds for various situations ...

What I wondered is if there is any interest in such an Excel? ...

Hi Izaak,

I'd defenitely be interested in such a tool.
My only concern is with the media "Excel" to build this sort of thing as I'll certainly NOT buy anything MS just to use such a file.
It would be great though, if you were able to convert this to Open Source stuff like Open Office.

Thanks for your efforts.
-Alf

Excel documents are compatible with OpenOffice as long as they use formulas only. It starts breaking when you add macros.

Non-existant user wrote:

Excel documents are compatible with OpenOffice as long as they use formulas only. It starts breaking when you add macros.

I agree to 100% with Alf's post. And while Boris has a point (which is why I quoted him and not alf) I'm still not sure that excel is the best "reusable" media.

Excel/OpenOffice is quite heavyweight and very general tools, it seems like killing rabbits with nuclear bombs (even if in this case, the nuclear bomb is a <personal opnion>horrible horrible messy fat ugly program which deserves death</personal opinion>).

If someone wrote an actual program which could do all these things by looking at a decklist in (lets say for instance) the secretlibrary format we could have a tool which could be extended, more lightweight and still much more streamlined to the actual needs. Depending on the language etc it could also be at least semi-portable and not require installing an entire office suite...

Does someone have a summary of all the things (measurements, formulas, analysis etc) that we would like to be able to do with such a program?

Excel is awesome. Don't trash talk it.