Build 4.0.0.73 of xlsgen adds the Windows 95/98-compatible version of xlsgen to our 32-bit Setup, zipped in the install folder. This Windows 95/98-compatible version proves useful for some of our customers and we recently broke the compatibility by having a DLL dependency unknown to Windows 95/98, and a number of Unicode-based WIN32 api calls that either do not work or are not available at all using Windows 95/98.

In the 32-bit Setup, the main binary file (xlsgen.dll) isn't compatible with Windows 95/98 since it's built with a version of Visual Studio C++ that is unable to produce an image that is compatible with Windows 95/98 (courtesy of Microsoft). That's why the Windows 95/98-compatible version is a separate binary, built with a much older version of Visual Studio C++, with the same name (xlsgen.dll) and the same API, i.e. no need to recompile your client code.

Build 4.0.0.72 of xlsgen is a fix pack including the following :
- custom theme correctly preserved in XLSB files
- sparklines correctly preserved in XLSB files
- font color in header/footer of XLSX /XLSB files : read/write and rendering

Build 4.0.0.71 of xlsgen adds form controls to our automatic source code generator which creates the source code for any Excel file in the programming language of your choice.

This addition to the source code generator is particularly useful because positioning form controls in the sheet may prove cumbersome and thanks to what we are making available, someone can now create a dialog-based user interface in Excel by hand, then pass the resulting file in the automatic source code generator in order to get the corresponding source code, and most notably the positions of each form control, complete with properties.

Build 4.0.0.70 of xlsgen makes it possible to compute the Gini() coefficient of a vector of values. The Gini() coefficient (Wikipedia) measures the dispersion of values, as a ratio between 0 and 1. For instance, if all values are the same, the Gini() coefficient is 0. The is a measure used in a number of markets.

The Gini() function is not an Excel function, which means it isn't part of any existing Excel version. It is an addition that only computes the value in the context of xlsgen.

Les journalistes d'aujourd'hui sont tellement peu vertueux, ceux qui sont le plus en vue fonctionnent par le recel qui est pourtant en principe puni par la loi, qu'il suffit, lorsqu'on regarde une émission (télévision, radio, ...) de compter le nombre de journalistes pour en déduire l'intérêt intellectuel et précisément vertueux inverse de l'émission.

Autrement dit, plus il y a de journalistes dans l'émission, moins le populo du quotidien a intérêt à regarder l'émission.

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