Re: More than 64K Rows (and misc comments)

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 10:46:04AM -0400, FRANCISCO CUENCA ACUNA wrote:
> src/gnumeric.h:#define SHEET_MAX_ROWS (256 * 1024)
> src/sheet-style.c:#define TILE_SIZE_ROW 23

That is a good start. You'll also need to tweak 2 other constants.
    src/gnumeric-canvas.h
#define GNUMERIC_CANVAS_FACTOR_Y 4000000

src/item-bar.c:item_bar_calc_size 
        /* 5 pixels left and right plus the width of the widest string I can think of */
        ib->cell_width = 5 + 5 + 
                style_font_string_width(bold_font, "88888");

Add more digits as necessary.

> PS: Why don't you ship Gnumeric with 128K rows by default? This would be a
> good selling point against excel. In fact it is the reason why I'm
> evaluating currently gnumeric.        
At some point we may, as things stand it is useful for compatibility
reasons to be the same as MS Excel.

> PS2: FYI, I found that compiling  gnumeric-1.0.9 under RH 8.0 fails. The
> reason is that Perl 8.0 has some bugs on their new unicode handling and
> therefore one of your scripts fail. Here are the details (I solved it
> running your scripts on a RH 7.1 machine)
Ick.  Could you report this to bugzilla.gnome.org in the intl-tools
module ?

> PS3: Now I'm going completely off the subject. I use gnumeric with an
> x-server that runs under windows (PC-Xware). I found that the "walking
> ants selection" disappears as soon as I release the shift key. Note that
> I've tested the same on a different x server for windows and it works
> fine. Question: Does this feature require some special x-server
> capabilities?
Not that I know of.  It is quite generic.  Interesting that you are
trying to run Gnumeric under windows.  Would you be able to help
build a native version based on gtk+ for win32 ?

> PS4:I use ctrl-ins to copy and shift-ins to paste, the former works but
> the later doesn't
I don't know how either would be working.  We install Ctrl-{cv}
Adding this would be trivial if you wanted to.