It sounds like starting over is reasonable. If you have time and the inclination to do that, then I'm all for it.
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 1:37 AM John Darrington <j...@cellform.com> wrote: > I think struct psppire_output_view is needlessly complicated. > It contains a GtkLayout which only ever has one child, namely a single > GtkDrawingArea. So far as I can tell, this drawing area is destoyed and > recreated on every expose event, which has to be both expensive and > cumbersome. > > It also contains a member called toplevel which is set but never used. > > Above all, I have great trouble understanding how it works. I guess this > is > because it is something created over ten years ago (by myself!) and has > evolved > over time, with a lot of contribution by Ben. > > We could try to clean it up, but I wonder if it might not be better to > start > again from scratch? If we ever want to make pivot tables interactive, > this will > probably be essential anyway. > > J' > >
