Re: 256-column limit

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:42:40AM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I've googled on the 256-col limit in gnumeric, and saw a 2002 posting
> from Jody, saying the only changes need to expand this were the
> #defines for
>
> SHEET_MAX_COLS
>
> (in gnumeric.h) and
>
> TILE_TOP_LEVEL
> TILE_SIZE_COL
>
> (in sheet-style.c).
>
> I'd just like to check: is that still applicable as of 1.2.8?

Somewhat, you no longer need to change the TILE_* :-)

> One other point in this area.  I've recently been working with a large
> CSV file, and at first I didn't notice that it had been truncated by
> gnumeric, since this was done silently.  When I tried opening the same
> CSV file in Excel I got a warning saying it had not been completely
> loaded.  Such a warning seems quite important!

Good idea, please add an enhancement request to bugzilla