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A silly local group messaging app where the server and all clients are excel sheets.

A silly local group messaging app where the server and all clients are excel sheets.

excel-messenger

A silly local group messaging app where the server and all clients are excel workbooks.

Note: this is not a real app, just an excel demo of the client-server paradigm, see the original blog post that started this.

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Features:

  • Only works on a local network
  • Clients all reference server sheet to get the master chat list
  • Server references nicknames and messages from client worksheets, adding them to the master chat list and shifting everything up
  • All sheets are autosaving constantly
  • Messages can take over 40 seconds to be received

New user interface:

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2 Open More issues
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Any chance of a license on this?

opened Sep 6, 2016 by graingert 3
Closed

Auto-Resolve root folder

The root_folder variable needs to be set in each client, could use something like Application.ActiveWorkbook.Path to get this automatically.

opened Sep 6, 2016 by bohdan-s 3
Closed

client_0 (maybe others) mistype

Private Sub Auto_Open() Call sync_with_serv End Sub

Should be

Private Sub Auto_Open() Call sync_with_server End Sub

opened Sep 6, 2016 by bohdan-s 2
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FYI you can make HTTP requests with excel

FYI you can make HTTP requests with excel: http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2011/01/06/using-web-services-from-excel/

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/51i1fd/_/d7c9asr?context=1000

opened Sep 7, 2016 by graingert 1
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Ghostly "Window Snip" on first screenshot

https://github.com/tristancalderbank/excel-messenger/blob/master/screenshots/cs-window.PNG?raw=true

opened Sep 6, 2016 by graingert 3
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