Re: Notes on Re: "Select All" Memory Bug?

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho ifi uio no>]

[Jody Goldberg]:
>   On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:06:10PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>   > this is my biggest usability gripe with Gnumeric.  it happens very
>   > often when I want to select a range of data larger than can fit on the
>   > screen.  if you try to do this using the mouse, it will suddenly shoot
>   > off and start jumping 5000 rows at a time.  considering that the
>   > spreadsheet often has no more than a hundred rows, this behaviour
>   > seems silly :-)
>   
>   The auto-scroll interval when moving the mouse outside the sheet
>   is variable depending on how far outside you move.  5000 rows is
>   the max, and only happens when you've moved quite far.

yeah, at least hundred pixels :-)

>   I've long been tempted to make it smarter and to use time as well
>   as distance in the selection, but have not had time.
>   
>   It would be fairly easy to add if anyone was interested.

actually, I'd prefer to disallow extending the selection past the end
of the sheet.  if you really want to go that far "out of bounds", you
can type in the coordinates.

it would also be good to have a way of saying: the sheet ends here.
it can be quite painful to convince Gnumeric of that by removing all
content and style (it may be due to poor technique on my part, but
stupid users need help too).

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