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- From: quinlan@fraser.sfu.ca (Brian Quinlan)
- Subject: Any ideas for a spread sheet?
- Message-ID: <quinlan.724151039@sfu.ca>
- Summary: Need help implementing a spread sheet
- Keywords: List Spreed Sheet Help
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:03:59 GMT
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- I'm currently writing an application that analysis data. This
- data is entered in two fields. Currently I only let the user see one
- data item at the same time (just the two fields in the one data item).
- However, this seems a little unmaclike and I think that using a spread sheet
- two columns wide would be a better way to go. The spread sheet would
- only allow the user to see a fixed amount of rows (say 5) and would only
- allow the user to scroll an entire row. This sounds nice, but how do I
- implement it? I could use 10 text items and just move the data between
- the text items as the user scrolls but that seems a little messy. What
- I would like to do is use the List Manager to handle the data and just
- handle the field that the user is manipulating using text edit. This
- seems impossible, however, since you can't remove a single cell from the
- list. Anyone have any other ideas? Anything would be helpfull (except
- telling me that I should write my own Spread Manager in assembly language,
- I'd rather abandon the problem)
- Thanks,
- Brian Quinlan
- quinlan@sfu.ca
- (By the way I wrote this at 1:25 A.M. and I only got 3 hours of sleep last
- night so forgive my lack of clarity)
-