Xxl is a free graphical spreadsheet developed at the University of Nice for Unix platforms. Xxl is written in STk and is based on the tkTable widget. Xxl is designed to be simple, easy to use and user friendly. The aim of xxl is not to compete with commercial spreadsheets. The latter are often too complex for novices and provides too much functionnalities for current usages. This last version of xxl provides a really fonctionnal spreadsheet for small or middle-size sheets. The model it defines is similar to that of all present-day spreadsheets. However, this model is limited and has to be entirely revisited. Xxl should be a stable experimental platform for future studies, in order to propose a reflexion and to define tools for a new spreadsheet generation, more simple and secure to use. This point of vue and more generally the xxl project is described in this paper. 

Main Features

• relative and absolute references to cells and ranges
• arithmetic, statistic, logic, time and string functions 
• infinite arithmetic 
• number of rows or cols is unlimited 
• multi-sheets, number of sheets is unlimited 
• deletion/insertion of rows/cols 
• X cut and glue for move or copy operations 
• X cut and glue also with other X clients 
• sheet identification (title, author, date, ...) 
• creating series 
• sorting 
• hiding and sticking rows and cols. 
• printing and pre-viewing 
• exported formats:  postscript, html, LaTeX, csv,  sylk 
• imported formats: csv, sylk 
• undo 
• graphics using Blt (barchart, line) (special thanks to Brian Denheyer)

• more layout facilities
• improve efficiency for large sheets

What's new in xxl-2.1.2?

• Please have a look at file ChangeLog for further informations 

• first (43K)
• second (31K)

• source tar.gz
• rpm i386 binary package
• rpm source package
• debian i386 binary package (thanks to Georges Khaznadar, georgesk@boltz.univ-littoral.fr)

• With Dec Alpha, Stk and Xxl cannot be compiled with gcc.

FIX:  use the native C compiler (ie cc)

• Problem loading libxxl.so when xxl starts (unresolved symbols). You have upgraded to lib6c (glibc), but your STk had been compiled under lib5c.

FIX:  recompile STk  using libc6

• With SunOS helios 5.6 (and maybe others sunos), xxl does not compile with yacc and lex.

FIX:  install and use flex and bison