Re: support for more than 256 cols?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 12:58:05PM -0500, Josh Fryman wrote:
> hi,
>
> my wife needs to do data anlysis on some simulation results.  it's about
> 360cols by 10,000rows. is there any way to get gnumeric to support more cols?

This change is trivial.

src/gnumeric.h
    change SHEET_MAX_COLS

src/sheet-style.c
    change TILE_SIZE_COL
This should be the smallest integer x such that x*x*x*x >= SHEET_MAX_COLS.

Our current parse routines will handle up to 27*26 columns.  Note
that you will sacrifice some XL compatibility.  MS sometimes allows
access to 'wrap' eg  =B1 in cell A1 refers 1 cell to the right.  The
same reference in IV1 wraps to A1 (sometimes).  Don't ya just love
MS :-)