Re: [gtk-list] Re: best widget for a spreadsheet

[Ivo Clarysse <soggie riv be>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Donald R Willhoit wrote:

> Excerpts from mail: 10-Oct-97 [gtk-list] best widget for .. by Daniel R
> Risacher@worldn 
> > If you were to write a spreadsheet program in gtk, what kind of
> > widgets would you use?  
> >  
> 
> I'm writing a few to allow a person to do just that.  They should be out
> around monday at least in beta.  So I guess my answer is a custom
> widget.  Let me know if you have any requirements and I'll consider

My requests:

Take a look at http://www.neurondata.com/Products/ML/mwl.html

Also, I'd like an ability for 'sparse' data structures (for example, the
cell contents may come out of an SQL database and not fit in virtual
memory all at once).

> them.  Basically I'm writing a cross between the scrolled window and the
> notebook widgets allowing you to have several pages each with
> independently scrollable contents but the scrollbars outside the
> notebook area.  Also I'm writing a revised table.  It should be able to
> handle selections of cells and cell-ranges and will draw the lines
> inbetween.  
> 
> Later,
> D. Ryan Willhoit <willhoit@andrew.cmu.edu> 
> 
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