From koffice  Tue Oct 16 08:36:58 2001
From: Nash Hoogwater <nrhoogwater () planet ! nl>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:36:58 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Proposal for new table-implementation in KWord
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On Tuesday 16 October 2001 10:01, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:23:44PM +0200, Nash Hoogwater wrote:
> > OK finally got time to compile kde3alpha1 and koffice from HEAD :-).
> >
> > > > Changing the table:
> > > >
> > > > - When changing the size of the table you just change the size of the
> > > > underlying frame and adjust the positions of the cells. Also this
> > > > will be much more transparent for users because there will be
> > > > adjusters around the total table and not just one cell.
> > >
> > > Yep, I do that now ;)
> >
> > I am not getting this beheavior...I still have adjusters around the
> > individual cells not the entire table.
>
> Hmm, I don't see how this behavior implies adjusters around the table,
> what is it excactly that you want, I can't find a consistent manner how
> this will work unless you make tables behave completely different from
> normal frames.

I think I just misunderstood you when you said that you did that already. So 
I'll let it go :-).

>
> > > > - When changing the width of the borders you just change the
> > > > size of the cells, adjust the positions of the cells.
> > >
> > > I do that, but I also adjust the size of the borders which means the
> > > border is drawn correctly both on screen and on paper. Well it needs
> > > some work, but that is the idea ;)
> >
> > OK, about the borders: when adding the default table I don't have an
> > upper border for the entire table. Btw. the borders do look good now when
> > zoomed in
> >
> > :-).
>
> Update, I fixed that yesterday :)

Ah I see, I just compiled.

>
> If you find time; the join and the split methods still have to be adjusted
> to the new style of working.

Could you give me a bit of a hint on what the new style of working is, 
because it is a lot of code :-). The problem that exists right now, for as 
far as I can see, is that there is a merge (in the of merging) of the cells, 
but the size of the cells/table is messed up.

Greetings,

Nash Hoogwater

P.S. Are there plans for an "auto-format" for tables?