Hi Eike, > > > 3) Store that as a cell attribute. If I understand correctly, Writer > > > uses this approach. > > > > Related to this idea, I think storing phonetic text as one attribute > > of EditTextObject in ScEditCell is also a good idea. ScEditCell seems to > > be used to store decorated text in a cell. So we can deal with > > phonetix text as one attribute of a decoration attributes. It doesn't > > have any bad effect on ScStringCell. EditTextObject seems to be a > > common class, so we ought to craete newEditRubyTextObject class if > > this idea is accepted. > > > > However, through this change, most cells that just hold Japanese text > > would be instances of ScEditCell. This is a waste of memory. > > Additionally, there's much overhead involved with an ScEditCell and its > EditEngine. Calculating with strings obtained from ScEditCell is > definitely slower than ScStringCell.
All right. Thank you for your information. > > > 4) Or maybe subclass ScStringCell to create ScRubyStringCell, and use an > > > instance of that class to store the ruby text information when needed ? > > > Just a wild idea, but could this work (maybe) ? > > > > I think this is not a good idea. It would make String type cell have > > 4 different classes, ScStringCell, ScRubyStringCell, ScEditCell, > > ScRubyEditCell. > > If ruby was implemented at EditEngine we would end up with just 3: > ScStringCell, ScRubyStringCell, ScEditCell. Exactly. > > Switching routine that choose one class from the four > > classes for creating an instance of a cell would be complex. > > I don't think so. You need to distinguish anyway, and subclassing may > actually ease things because switching can be done internally using > factory patterns and RTTI. Well, as you and Kohei say, creating subclass ScRubyStringCell from ScStringCell is the best way and I will try. Thank you for your suggestion! -- Japanese Native-Language project Good-Day Inc. Takashi Nakamoto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
