William S Fulton wrote:
Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> On Monday, 2008-11-10 23:03:49 +0000, William S Fulton wrote:
>
>> we need to decide how to support multiline text over DDE. We could
>> implement a number of different protocols over DDE or even OLE, this
>> is a useful document describing the protocols Excel uses -
>> http://forums.ni.com/ni/attachments/ni/170/113711/1/dde.doc -
>> XlTable looks good.
>
> Not quite. It would only support 64k rows, and strings would be limited
> to 255 chars. It might be sufficient for simple transfers, and
> supporting it as a reading application if a server offers it may be
> better than riddling around with unformatted text. However, a protocol
> internal to Calc/OOo should be slightly different.
>
>> Or maybe, simply not progress and revert to replacing newlines and
>> tabs with spaces when DDE linking - much easier :). Any thoughts?
>
> I'd suggest a two-step procedure: first get the multi-line correct for
> all filter formats we already have and that already support it, and in
> DDE replace tabs and newlines.
>
> Then, in a second CWS, do a follow-up implementation for DDE, using
> whatever format. Switching to another format for DDE would involve more
> than just some changes in Calc, such as clipboard registration on
> Windows. You would also want other OOo applications to support it as
> well.
>
Two stage approach sounds good. Also as Niklas suggested, I'll replace
tabs and newlines with spaces for DDE linking, for the 1st stage.
Well, I finally found some time to get back to this, sorry for delays.
Tabs and newlines are now replaced with spaces for DDE linking. Please
see latest patch:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35913. Is now the right
time to set up a CWS as mentioned above or are there any more
suggestions for improvement?
William
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