On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 15:32 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:44:29AM -0700, Hal Eisen wrote: > > Chris, > > > > I don't think the Conditional Formatting is blocked by the *technical* > > side of the solution. What is lacking is a good description of the GUI > > and how the user should interact with the software. To that end, I've > > been scribbling down what at my company we call an MRD (Marketing > > Requirements Document) which does just that. It still needs some work, > > but I plan to share it with the group and get input. > > That would be very helpful. As things stand the conditional > formatting implementation supports almost super set of the style > elements that MS Excel allows. > - background (pattern, and colours) > - borders (Top, Bottom, Left, Right as in XL + diagonals which are not in > XL) > - Font elements (Missing super/subscript but supports the rest) > - visibility and protection (not in XL) > > We could add other elements such as input messages, or validation > but I don't see a pressing need.
I think what I've got in mind is fairly extensible. The nutshell preview is for something along the lines of Evolution's "filter" dialog. There's a list of one or more selection criteria on the top half, and a list of styles on the bottom half. Each conditional formatting rule can be named or anonymous. The selection criteria can be ANY-OF (aka logical-or) or ALL-OF (aka logical-and). The styles would be from your 4 bullet items above (colors, font, borders, etc). Does anyone think I'm going in the right direction? Hal _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
