Re: Gnumeric 0.75, a few considerations

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:38:49PM +0100, wwp wrote:
>  - when editing a cell (for text typing) with F2, when pressing Shift+[any
>    arrow], it starts to select a text. This is normal of course, but the
>    selection is shown in the formula widget, and not in the cell itself.
>    Could it be possible to see the selection in the cell too?
>    Same, the mouse cursor doesn't allow to select the text inside the cell
>    while typing in it.
Not for 1.0.  We don't support in cell editing.  For the next
release I am going to merge the edit item with the cell-draw
routines which will make this even more difficult.
  
>  - a part of text copied (CTRL+C) anywhere from within Gnumeric can be
>    pasted into a cell (F2.. typing some text.. then CTRL+V: it adds the text to
>    the cell's content: OK).
>    But it seems to be impossible to paste a text copied from another app
>    while editing the content of a cell..
>    I've noticed that pasting a text copied from outside when I'm *not* inside
>    a cell will lead Gnumeric to open a import dialog. This import feature works
>    well and is very nice. Neither using this, it've not found a way to paste
>    the whole text inside 1 cell only.
>    Is there a workaround for this, or would it be a future feature if possible?
Yes, there is a bug open on this.  I hope to find a workaround for
it before 1.0.

>  - the undo feature is not allowed when editing cell's content or I'm wrong?
True, This would be a 2.0 feature.

>  - using the "Print setup" on a .xls file, when the "Center" option is set
>     (horizontal and/or vertical), the data from the sheet are shown completely
>     outside of the margins (so, outside of the paper) when opening a "Print
>     preview".. Disabling "Center" prevents this behaviour.
>     Is this because I'm editing a .xls directly?
This is a bug in all versions <= 0.75.  It is fixed in CVS.

>     Moreover, when clicking 30 times on the "Print preview", it opens 30
>     different Print previews! Is this a intentional feature, or would it be
>     better to update the current preview window?
Good Idea, I'll try to get this in before 1.0.
 
>  - I've compiled with GNOME basic support (seems OK at ./configure & make
>     time), but what can I do to use gb scripts in Gnumeric? I can't see
>     anything related to this in Gnumeric interface, whereas gb is installed and
>     the plugin is loaded OK.
gb plugin is experimental.

>     Note that README says Gnumeric requires GB == 0.0.19, but configure
>     script looks for == 0.0.17 (and that it compiles without problem against 0.0.20).
README has been fixed.

>     I've not found any doc about the use of Gnumeric and GB together (macros?),
>     neither in Gnumeric's doc, nor in GB's one.. is something written about this?
No.  We are intentionally ignoring scripting for 1.0.  I'd rather
get a release done then work on this when there is more time.