Re: More than 64K Rows (and misc comments)

[Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna <mcuenca cs rutgers edu>]

> #define GNUMERIC_CANVAS_FACTOR_Y 4000000

        I multiplied times 4 (as the number of rows) and it is now 
refreshing the A-1 column fine

> src/item-bar.c:item_bar_calc_size
>         /* 5 pixels left and right plus the width of the widest string I 
> can think of */
>         ib->cell_width = 5 + 5 +
>                 style_font_string_width(bold_font, "88888");
>
> Add more digits as necessary.

        This is not enough. I can shrink the number of digits fine, but 
enlarging past 88888 makes no change to the column width. Do you know where 
this limitation is coming from?


> > PS2: FYI, I found that compiling  gnumeric-1.0.9 under RH 8.0 fails. The
> > reason is that Perl 8.0 has some bugs on their new unicode handling and
> > therefore one of your scripts fail. Here are the details (I solved it
> > running your scripts on a RH 7.1 machine)
> Ick.  Could you report this to bugzilla.gnome.org in the intl-tools
> module ?

        Done (Bug 95068)

> Not that I know of.  It is quite generic.  Interesting that you are
> trying to run Gnumeric under windows.  Would you be able to help
> build a native version based on gtk+ for win32 ?

        Well, I always argue with my friends about this. To make it short 
I find windows a better desktop/glue environment and linux a better 
development/server environment. So I use windows with an x server and lots 
of terminals (and my beloved emacs).
        About the porting, thanks for the offer, but it would require a 
lot of time that I don't have right now. The reason for trying gnumeric as 
I said is that I'm getting tired of excels's 64K row limit and 32K points 
limit for plots (how is gnumeric in this aspect?)

> > PS4:I use ctrl-ins to copy and shift-ins to paste, the former works but
> > the later doesn't
> I don't know how either would be working.  We install Ctrl-{cv}
> Adding this would be trivial if you wanted to.
        I did a search but I didn't find anything, I'll try again with 
source navigator and I'll try to add it.

        Thanks all for your feedback. I love to find communities of 
developers committed to what they do. If you don't mind I'll keep on 
providing feedback to your already-great program. Hopefully at some point 
I'll be able to send patches also and not only feedback (although time is 
always a villain)

        Matias