Edwin Leuven wrote: > i think that things become a bit cleaner, there was already indexing > going keeping track of the row/column of each cell, but in addition > there was a cellno attribute, and this > > CELL_NORMAL > CELL_BEGIN_OF_MULTICOLUMN > CELL_PART_OF_MULTICOLUMN > > stuff. we can now also iterate over cells in the output methods without > adding extra checks.
But e.g. copy/paste will become tricky AFAICS, because in that context you need the real row/column numbers. > perhaps because the person who wrote this stuff was a noodle brain > (resulting in the unavoidable noodle code), but having a cell for a cell > makes sense to me. The current code is certainly a mess, and I am convinced that it can be simplified quite a bit. I only wanted to warn that your approach does not make _everything_ easier. > and finally, it is a good reason to stick my arms in the mud... Take care that it does not suck you in :-) Georg
