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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KSpread: too strict validation on loading
From:       John Dailey <dailey () vt ! edu>
Date:       2002-08-31 1:49:04
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I see no problems with the patch, but I'm a bit confused about the purpose.  
Are we going to try to allow forward compatibility with files?

-John

On Friday 30 August 2002 01:54 pm, Norbert Andres wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while reading kspread_layout code I noticed, that we have very strict rules
> e.g. for alignX/Y values:
> if it is not in the range we understand, we just return false.
>
> This is very nice if you think about forward compatibility: if we added
> another Flag, e.g. for aligning across a selection (see Gnumeric/OpenCalc),
> in KSpread 1.3 this document can't be readed anymore.
>
> Using the attached patch it defaults to the standard value if KSpread reads
> in something it can't understand.
>
> Commit?
> Norbert

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