Re: maximum number of Gnumeric cells

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:00:44AM +0200, Jean Brefort wrote:
> Le mer 15/10/2003 ?? 05:13, Christopher King a ??crit :
> > I, too, have run up against the problem of Excel spreadsheets being
> > limited to 256 cells wide.  If practical, it would seem to be a strong
> > selling point for gnumeric to beat that out of the box.  512 X 64k
> > would have solved my problem.
> >
> > Chris
> Instead of being a compile time constant, why not have the row and
> column number defined at runtime (using GConf)?

We're definitely planning to do that some day, but its a fair amount
of work.  Frankly it did not seem worth the effort to support
changing it during a run.