Re: PATCH: Add --print support to command line

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:09:39AM -0600, Matthew Chappee wrote:
> ...and gnumeric will print the active sheet and then exit, without
> throwing up any GUI elements.  It's *not* a console-only app.  Hacking
> the X dependencies out would be difficult, if not impossible. We've been
> using it, and it works well.  I have no problem "owning" it if that's an
> issue.  The patch applies to gnumeric 1.0.4.

Hmm, the idea is good, but the implementation could use some love.

Adding a 'just print it' to wbcg_new is not correct.  Lets take this
from the top.  In the long run the correct answer here will be to
have a standalone app based on libgnumeric.  For now we can extend
the core app.

I'd like to see something like
    gnumeric --print-sheet=sheet2 --print-sheet=sheet3 foo.xls

Which requires 2 changes
1) Check that there is only 1 file to be opened.
2) change the flag to be a string with a NULL being equivalent to
the current behavior of 'print the visible sheet'

Get the handling in place for that and we can discuss how to get
things printed.

Nice work, I don't think the result can go into 1.0, but it is
definitely fodder for 1.1.