From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 13:14:41 EDT
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:02:31 +1000 (EST)
> From: Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>
> Cc: Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>,
> AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: commit: Merge Cells
> No. This was my own idea. I looked at the Word 2000 interface. It is not
> bad but it will be difficult to implement in the short term for us. We
> would need a way of grouping selections instead of having just one
> selection as we do now. For us a selection of cells on different rows
> would require us to have one selection per row. We would need to make
> substantional changes to FV_View to do this. This is a 15,000 line method
> and reachesout to all sorts of other places in the code. It is possible
> and to do other things with tables (Like copying and pasting a whole
> column) we will have to deal with it.
> The idea came to me after reading Seth Nicol's Human Interface Guide.
must read that sometime...
> Particularly the part about changes being immediately effective. Also the
> process of selecting cells first then merging them is actually a bit
> harder than this technique I think.
it works well so long as the dialog is not too big,
larger dialogs obscure the document behind it and on a smaller display you
wont have much room.
> I haven't thought about this but it would not be hard to implement. If
> someone wants to do it please go ahead! Actually the toolbar control I'd
> really want is the cool graphical "insert table" control in Word 2000/Word
> Perfect where you select the size of the table you want graphically.
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/abi/ui/microsoft-word2000_toolbar-table-menu-widget001.png
i love that feature too
Later
Alan
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