Re: "Select All" Memory Bug?

[David Mitchell <mitchell ucar edu>]

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 14:15, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:19:21AM -0700, David Mitchell wrote:
> > Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I'm running KDE?
>
> Bingo!
> !#$^! #$&^ Klipper
>
> Try disabling it and I'll be the problem goes away.

Yep, that did the trick. I never used Klipper anyway (although it seems
like it could be a neat feature), so turning it off isn't a big hassle
for me.

> Gnumeric supports several clipboard formats.  Klipper is probably
> selecting something like csv, or text.  and we're getting confused
> and trying to produce a text version of 65k rows.

That makes sense. I think I've caught gnumeric making poor choices in
other cases about which cells actually contain worthwhile data. At least
once I've ended up sending a spreadsheet to my boss which contained
about 16K rows, which Excel happily tried to print for her. I haven't
reported it as a bug though since I wasn't able to find a way to
reliably reproduce it. That particular spreadsheet when thru a lot of
hands, and got cross-converted between Gnumeric XML format and Excel
format several times. I'm still not sure exactly how it ended up with
16K rows, but I was never able to get rid of them. I eventually had to
cut-n-paste the valid cells into a new document, which bringing it back
on topic, triggered the bug I did report. At the time I didn't recognize
it because I was trying to copy ~16K rows, so I wasn't too surprised
when the memory blew up on me. But I'm being longwinded.

> There are no external debug flags in gnumeric for tracking this sort
> of thing, but I'll try to replicate it now that I have a better
> clue.  We'll need to work around it.

Sounds good. Let me know if you need more info, or want me to test a
patch or anything. Thanks,

-David Mitchell

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