Re: Very wide SC-format spreadsheet only imports first 256 cols

[Jonathan Lovelace <kingjon3377 gmail com>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Andreas Guelzow wrote:

> Most likely all that is
> needed is to increase that number (in plugins/sc/sc.c) to 512 and
> recompile.

Thanks for your quick reply; yes, that works.

> You will loose things like  column width, cell format etc
> since their import is simply not implemented.

Importing column width properly would be rather difficult, since it's 
how many *characters* wide the column should be, and I'd think Gnumeric 
would want it in some font-independent metric. And most cases SC uses 
cell formatting for (the big one is displaying the non-integer part of 
numeric values) modern spreadsheets handle properly automatically.
If I were more familiar with C as Gnome uses it I'd write a patch to add 
a do-nothing function for most "format" and "fmt" "directives" and give a 
more useful warning message for the rarer ones that aren't pointless, just 
to reduce the error verbosity. But that doesn't matter.

Again, thank you for your prompt and helpful reply!

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