Re: locking cells

[Floris Kraak <floris snow nl>]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:19:43AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I could leave it alone and extended the sheet manager 
> (format->sheet->manage) to set protection for individual sheets.
> 
> It would be very easy for me to make the required changes in commands.c 
> to enforce protection for the various actions that may change cells.
> 
> But since Floris was going to work on this, I want to make sure that we 
> don't collide (any further).
>

Thanks. Right now, I haven't really gotten to producing a patch really -
this is only a part-time thing and like I kindof expected the bits my
employer wants (ui level locking) are already in the devel tree. Don't
worry though, we're not done yet.

>
> Of course, we could split the work. It would be very helpful if someone 
> would compile a list of actions that currently change a locked cell (but 
> shuldn't) so that we basically can check any progress made in this area.
> 

Interesting. I will look into that (sounds easy enough with a bit
of scripting), but I also have some other bits
I have to look into. (more on that later)

So go straight ahead, I'll catch up with you eventually ;-)

Regards,
Floris Kraak
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