Re: GtkGrid design document

[Magnus Bergman <magnus bergman observer net>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:47:43 +0200
Lorenzo Gil Sanchez <lgs sicem biz> wrote:

> >  - Rectangular selection
> > 
> This is planned but still need to be studied since all the cells of
> the same column share the same type it will be difficult to allow
> random copy and paste of rectangular selections.

A solution I have seen to this is to ignore the selected column and
automatically place the data in the right column(s) on the selected
row then pasting. It felt very intuitive and was exactly what I
expected the program to do.