On 11/09/08 00:48, William S Fulton wrote:
The biggest area for change though is DDE links and I need some help here before implementing them. Firstly, tabs within a cell are broken in the current versions of Calc and the problems are closely related to newline characters within cells. Excel deals with both tabs and newlines in cells and as this is a working solution, I'd like to know if there is anyone who can provide some information as to how it works. Somehow it is doing the impossible, here is why...
The old idea was that a cell just isn't supposed to contain TAB characters.
I've arrived at a juncture. Firstly, does anyone have a good insight into all this? Secondly, assuming the dde links are done using SYLK, is it okay to change this in OOo to match?
Also for links to other applications? That's a bit dangerous. There might be tools (DDE servers) in use somewhere providing text data that works well with OOo, but SYLK that we can't import for some reason. If we support SYLK now, and prefer SYLK over text data if both are available, such a tool would stop working with OOo.
- Does anyone know of any other unix DDE clients, in particular spreadsheets? If not the impact of changing the end of line terminator from \n to \r\n won't be so big.
We don't do DDE on Unix. Links between OOo documents are handled within OOo by SvLinkSource, SvBaseLink and related classes, but "external" links are only implemented on Windows (svtools/source/svdde).
Apologies for long email, but it is all a great big can of worms!!
Honestly, I'd leave DDE exactly as it is, with newlines replaced by spaces. Niklas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
