On Saturday 31 August 2002 03:49, John Dailey wrote:
> I see no problems with the patch, but I'm a bit confused about the purpos=
e.
> Are we going to try to allow forward compatibility with files?
Well this is one reason for XML. You only read thing you understand and ign=
ore=20
features you don't have.
Maybe this patch turns out to be useless in the future, but if KSpread 1.2=
=20
user can still read 1.3 documents because of the patch it is nice. Anyway, =
it=20
doesn't hurt if we try to in this case.
Norbert

>
> -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 anymor=
e.
> >
> > 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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