Re: Text import (was: Gnumeric and RHEL3)

[David Stanaway <david stanaway net>]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 15:57 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > I can import a file but the widget to parse the data is a big ugly nasty
> > thing, nothing like I had used before on RedHat 9 (gnumeric-1.0.12-3).
> 
> The 1.2 text import is a reimplementation.  I'm, sorry you don't like it.
> Perhaps you could put up a screenshot somewhere so we can see if it is
> somehow malformed.
> 
> If it isn't, well, then you are going to have to be more specific about
> what it is that you don't like.  bugzilla.gnome.org would be the right
> place for that.
> 
> The dialog is known to be big.  It's not to irritate you, but to make
> room for interactive selection of lots of things that 1.0.x never got
> right.  Character encoding, for example.

How is the need for the text import dialog determined?  I was recently
trying to paste some data from a gnome-terminal like:

1433	45
2423	423
234	452
...  About 30 rows, not sure if the paste data was \r\n or \n and it
would not paste onto a selection (Edit menu paste was also greyed out).
I could only paste into the formula textfield, and this didn't bring up
the text import dialog.

I have since upgraded so I am not sure what the old version, in my
current version  I can use the [1] menu to copy/paste data, but a mouse
paste does not work (I just see a paste [2] mouse cursor but nothing
happens).

[1] http://mena.us/~david/screens/text-paste-menu-copy-paste.png
[2] http://mena.us/~david/screens/text-paste-mouse-paste.png

Relevant versions:
Debian/unstable
ii  gnumeric                  1.2.13-1

Is this a problem specific to the debian packages or can other people
see the same thing?

It used to be the case that I could just mouse-paste the data which was
more convenient.


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David Stanaway <david stanaway net>