On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> Well we could disable elements which are useless for a certain selection
> (as first measure).
yes, this would be a good first step.
> > The solution is to add some handles to the tables. Think spreadsheet - we
> > will have little grey boxes around the top and the left of the
> > table[1]. Now to apply rows property changes, we can select the row box,
> > and immediately get sensible blue-select feedback. We can select a number
> > of rows, and apply changes to them. Right-clicking can bring up a separate
> > dialog for rows only - the confusion is gone. The multicolumn "impossible
> > operation" message can be avoided.
> >
>
> Seems nice and who is coding it? #:O)
well the tables code terrifies me :)
> Seriously I think that it shouldn't be too difficult to do this, but there
> is first some other stuff I would like to fix, but this surely will go to
> my todo list.
OK cool. IMHO this is definitely a "value-added" feature, and things like
spell checking tables are far more important for the time being.
> Sure! While I think we will never (well in a long time ;) have support for
> moving columns by mouse, but Cut/Copy/Paste operations for whole columsn
> rows are quite easily possible IMO.
great
thanks
john
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