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Change of strategy:

	- We dont do "smart" autoformat of numbers and strings.
	  That is what the "general" format is for.

MigueL

New value format framework installed.

The idea is that we will precompile formats to avoid parsing the
format everytime a cell is repainted.

Miguel.

1998-08-19  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>

	* src/format.c (format_value): The new entry point for formating
	values.  This takes a Value instead of a float.
	NULL is never returned from format_value now: if there is a format
	error, then value_string is used to display it.

	(format_compile): This routine should always return, it cant fail,
	in the worst * case it should just downgrade to simplistic formatting.

	(format_destroy): This routine is invoked when the last user of
	the format is gone (ie, refcount has reached zero) just before the
	StyleFormat structure is actually released.  resources allocated
	in format_compile should be disposed here

Basically:

	- auto-alignment on cells without style works.

	- Clean ups (use the new cell_ routines).

	- Couple of bug fixes.

	- Figured that aligment code works better if you
	  actually call the routine on the cell.

Miguel

1998-08-19  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>

	* src/sheet.c (sheet_cursor_set): New function.  Use this instead
	of the view-specific routine (gnumeric_cursor_set).

	* src/gnumeric-sheet.c (gnumeric_sheet_can_move_cursor): ':' is a
	valid separator for activating the cursor-cell selection mode.

	* src/cell.c (cell_auto_align): New function.  This tries to
	auto-align the cell contents depending on the value type.

	* src/dialog-cell-format.c (cell_properties_apply): Create a
	single style that is attached to a region and let each property
	page fill the structure in.
	(apply_align_format): Implement.  No wonder it was not working
	last night.
	(apply_number_formats): Fill the passed Style structure only.
	Remove obsolete code.

	* src/sheet.c (sheet_cell_new): New cells are born with auto-style
	flag turned on.

	* src/clipboard.c (paste_cell): Render the cell after computation
	is finished.  Clean up the usage of the cell manipulation;  make
	auto-style work on pasted cells.

	* src/str.c (string_ref): Return the value referenced.

Drag and Drop editing actions work now:

	- Copy cells by contorl-dragging the border of a selection
	- Move cells by dragging border of a selection
	- Do other operations by right-button-dragging the selection border

Miguel

Alignment dialog box (does not work though, wonder why).

Various fixes to the cursor handling;

Stippled cursors for autofill and drag;

check in before going home.

Miguel.

1998-08-18  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>

	* src/gnumeric-sheet.c (gnumeric_sheet_compute_visible_ranges):
	Make the selected column and row be always fully visible (ie, use
	the ->last_full_[col|row] instead of last_visible_[col|row].

	* src/cell.c (cell_set_format): Call cell_queue_redraw after
	changing the cell contents.

Today:

	- Cell format dialog box + working number formats.

Miguel.

1998-08-17  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>

	* src/eval.c (cell_eval): Use the formating routine now.

	* src/expr.c (value_format): Format a Value with a StyleFormat.

	* src/item-cursor.c (item_cursor_set_bounds_visibly): Force a
	canvas update after moving the selection.

	* src/sheet.c (sheet_selection_to_list): New function: generates a
	list of cells from the sheet->selections list.

	* src/style.c: Now styles have a "valid_flag" that has a bit
	turned on for those parts of the style that are actually used.
	This is required for adding the regions of style application in a
	Sheet.
	(style_destroy): destroy only those valid parts in a style.

	* src/dialog-cell-format.c: New file.   Implements the cell/format
	dialog box.

	* src/cell.c (cell_render_value): new routine used to render the
	cell->value into cell->text.
	(cell_queue_redraw): new routine to queue individual redraws of
	the screen.  I believe it is buggy, as the screen does not update
	after an apply in the cell/format dialog box.
	(cell_set_format): New routine to change the format of an existing
	cell.

	* src/format.c (format_number): Added color argument;  smaller
	fixes to use it within gnumeric.

	* src/main.c (main): Include i18n setup as per namsh's suggetion.

1998-08-17  Miguel de Icaza  <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>

	* src/main.c (main): Include i18n setup as per namsh's suggetion.

Various little fixes here and there:

	- Basic support for dragging the selection is in (still does
	  not do anything, will do the action binding later).

	- Fixes to the cell-selection-code-when-you-type-a-formula code

	- ExprTrees are now properly refcounted (instead of only
	  refcounting the root node).  This is required for the
	  Paste special/with-arithmetic operation feature.

	- Expression decoding (for pasting a formula with relative
	  references) now takes into account operator precedence to
	  avoid cluttering the pasted expression with extra paretheses.

	Other smallish fixes which I forget now.

Miguel.

1998-08-14  Jaka Mocnik  <jaka.mocnik@kiss.uni-lj.si>

        * src/clipboard.h: changed PASTE_ALL to PASTE_ALL_TYPES.
	* src/gnumeric-util.c (gtk_radio_group_get_selected):
	changed to work. I guess it is a bit weird trying to
        access a next member of an int.

Various small fixes + goto dialogs + improved paste special.

Thu Aug 13 19:08:28 1998  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>

	* src/xml-io.c: Look in gnome-xml for tree.h and parser.h.

Paste special dialog box.
Expression tree decoder (required for copy paste).
Selection walking works properly just like in Excel.

OK, first version of Gnumeric with cut/copy/paste support.

It has a bug or two that I will fix tomorrow first thing in
the morning.

Tomorrow I will also do the "move" region thingie with the
new fix to the canvas from Federico.

Miguel.

Ok, fixed the problems with the bounds in the ItemCursor,
but i still cant get events after I do a gnome_canvas_grab
for the case of the dragging selection.

Work on the clipboard

Ok, finally got recalculation working as it is supposed to work.

This piece of code is so clean that it was actually a clean fix :-)

Autocalc works (but I managed to break the recursive detection
stuff, will fix that tomorrow).

Quick-computations on the selected area (like Excel) works with
different user-selectable functions.

Fixed the horrible crash due to not removing my strings from the
hash table ;-)

Miguel

It autocalcs!

My technique is incredibly cool!  The engine should support
most excel features for recursive computations (we just need
the dialog boxes now).

It still has a wierdo crash from a mismatched string ref/unref
but that is going to be trivial to fix.

Next step:  Functions in Perl.

Today it probably does not compile, but I have to leave now.

This is basically the framework for getting computations working.

My current approach is to register areas of interest for a cell.
This is not perfect, but good enough:

	The idea is to walk the expression tree and look for
	cell references (cell references or ranges) and register
	those areas of "interest" for a cell.

	When a new text is entered into a cell, the "regions" of
	interest list is checked and if a match is found, then
	the cells on that region of interest are queued for
	recomputation.

Of course, I do not know yet how to handle the recursive references.

One option is to keep a counter (that starts at zero) during
recomputation, ie something like:

eval_cell (Cell *cell)
{
	cell->use_count++;
	if (cell->use_count > threshold)
		return "Cycle too depth";
	...
	on value lookup:
		eval_cell (cell);
	...
	cell->use_count--;
}