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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Features for KSpread
From:       weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date:       1999-05-09 21:31:31
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Hi,

I am the maintainer of KSpread. That are good ideas, but more basic
work has to be done first. These days I made boolean expressions in
cells possible, selection lists work again, HyperText in Cells
( using the former Qt QML ) is really cool and kformula is smoothly
integrated.

These days I am more heading towards a first stable version with the most
important features and some goodies.

Bye
Torben


On Sun, 9 May 1999, Oliver Lemke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to contribute to the work on KSpraed, but as I am no C-Coder, I
> think I only can contribute some thoughts about features that would be
> nice for the KOffice-Spreadsheet.
> 
> First of all, some kind of autogenerated data-input-mask would be useful
> for those who have to type in lots of data. This is especially useful
> for data-base-like tables that store the "database fields" in their
> columns and the "data-sets" in their rows. This function should analyse
> the table and generate an input-dialog with input-fields for the columns
> of the table and navigation-controls for navigating through the
> data-sets (i.e. the rows of the table). It should also contain a search
> function. Later on, we should consider a feature to hide the table which
> stores the data or even the whole KSpread excluding the data-input
> dialog. This could then be some kind of a "minimal data-base"
> application.
> 
> Also pretty handy is Excel's auto-completition of inputs in cells. For
> all of those who don't use excel, this features tries to "automagically"
> complete an unfinished input in a cell by looking up the table for a
> simliar expression. E.g. if you entered "KOffice" in a cell before and
> start typing "KO" in a different cell, Excel expands your input to
> "KOffice". The auto-completed part of the input is displayed as selected
> text so you can easily overwrite it by typing in more text. I think we
> should implement it a little more Unix-like, maybe it should be possible
> to trigger the auto-completition-feature by hitting the <TAB>-key like
> being in a bash-shell.
> 
> Maybe we could implement also something like an input-restriction that
> only allows limited expressions as valid inputs. I had to implement this
> in Visual-"it-sucks"-Basic for Applications some months ago at work. We
> performed a traffic-accountment (?? de: "Verkehrserhebung") and hired
> some students to type in the data in Excel. The problem was, that some
> of them weren't form that region and didn't always know the correct
> spelling of the travelling-destinations the (railway-)passangers were
> asked for. So we had 12 "Altmorschen", 15 "Aldmorschen" an 20
> "Altmorchen" in our table! ;-) With an input-restriction you colud only
> allow "Altmorschen" (the correct spelling) as a valid input, every other
> input is rejected. The allowed inputs should be stored in a different
> tabel.
> 
> What do you think of these features?
> 
> BTW: Who is the maintainer of KSpread at the moment?
> 
> Oli
> 
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------
>    Oliver Lemke, TU Braunschweig
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 

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