Hi, Paul.

PE> FM> As for programming these things, well a basic spreadsheet
PE>implementation
PE> FM> isn't that difficult - Borland actually include a reasonably
PE> FM> comprehensive one as example code with the Turbo Pascal compiler. Of
PE> FM> course if you want a flash GUI and all the stuff that Excel or Quattro
PE> FM> for Win have, that's a lot harder. I know, I've done it.

PE>Assuming you were writing under something like Windows, how
PE>would you handle the fact that the cells can be increased in
PE>size by the user?  That means you can't define a whole lot of
PE>input cells, which I believe you could do if they were of
PE>fixed size.  BFN.  Paul.

In one of them I was doing Windows, but it was just a spreadsheet-like
thing to give the user a place to put some info and a couple of
straightforward calculations if he wanted (from memory). I didn't
implement any fancy cell-resizing stuff, just defined a whole lot of
cells as you mention.

To do what you're thinking, I guess I'd make Height an attribute of an
array of Rows, since the height will be the same for all cells in the
row (and the width the same for all cells in a column) and leave it up
to the display routine to put it on the screen (the wm_Paint message in
Windows).

IOW, the display-related stuff is totally separate from the storage of
the cell contents (& other cell-related attributes like format).

Regards, FIM.

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