Re: [Usability]Re: Viewpoints on conditional formatting, anyone?
- From: Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>
- To: Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>
- Cc: gnumeric-list gnome org, usability gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Usability]Re: Viewpoints on conditional formatting, anyone?
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:39:05 -0500
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:22:06PM +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
I admit I don't know much about spreadsheets, but I have to wonder why
'conditional formatting' is so special it warrants its own menu
item/dialog. In my view, the format condition could just be a property of
the style that is applied to a certain range of cells. I imagine a Cell
attributes notebook like OOo's, with one more 'Condition' tab. Or would
that be too simple?
Yes and no. I would certainly prefer to have it a part of the
format dialog itself, but remember that the conditions select a full
style, not a single element. Here's a pseudo-xml example in an
artificial dtd.
<Style>
<Font name="Arial" size="10"/>
<ConditionalStyle id="0" type="cell-value" condition=">10">
<Font name="Arial" size="20" bold="true"/>
</ConditionalStyle>
<ConditionalStyle id="1" type="expression" condition="$A$1<0">
<Font name="Hevetica" size="0" italic="true"/>
</ConditionalStyle>
</Style>
Conditions are not just elements of a style (like font = Arial) they
contain a subset of a style.
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