Hi Noel,
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 23:01 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
> Yeah, that is what I tried the first time.
:-)
> But it turns out to be incredibly hard to keep the lifecycle of the
> ScBaseCell objects and the lifecycle of the ScPostIt objects tied
> together, because ScBaseCell and it's child classes get allocated and
> deallocated in lots of different places, not just in ScTable.
Right ! :-) this is indeed the problem - that the whole code-base
thinks that spreadsheets should be made out of Cell objects: where in
fact this is broadly a nonsense we have to fix.
FWIW - great minds think alike, I also came up with a patch not
dissimilar to yours some years back; I used a spare bit in a flag on the
cell itself to avoid some of the lookups, but at the end I don't think
it really move us towards where we want to be.
Sorry if the problem is a bit more of a nightmare than expected, but I
thought your initial approach was much more promising :-) where were the
biggest obstacles ? or did you feel that your changes were getting wider
& wider & wouldn't accepted [ which is unlikely to be the case, we need
the back of this broken ;-]
Thanks !
Michael.
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