[sugar] gtk experiment for an spreadsheet activity

[Tomeu Vizoso]

And btw, I won't have any more spare time to spend on this, so if
someone feels like pushing further, is more than welcome to fork it and
do whatever she/he feels like.

Tomeu

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:13 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> what can be done during a weekend without net access but with a copy of
> the pygtk tutorial? An spreadsheet!
> 
> http://dev.laptop.org/~tomeu/Count-1.xo
> http://dev.laptop.org/~tomeu/count-screenshot.png
> 
> Well, not quite.
> 
> This can be seen more accurately as an experiment to see until which
> point the gtk.TreeView widget can carry us. These are the things that I
> haven't found how to do with the current gtk.TreeView:
> 
> - Row headers.
> - Non-fixed number of columns.
> - Alignment of values inside the cells.
> - Automatically add rows as the user scrolls down.
> - Support big datasets efficiently.
> - A more standard way of starting cell edits.
> 
> To fix these would probably take forking the upstream gtk.TreeView
> inside the activity bundle.
> 
> This is NOT an attempt to replace the current efforts of porting
> SocialCalc and Gnumeric to Sugar. While these projects aim for full
> featured spreadsheets, gtk.TreeView will probably be only enough for a
> very limited spreadsheet that only support the most basic functionality,
> mainly manipulation of tabulated data and some simple functions.
> 
> The basic infrastructure for supporting functions is there, but a parser
> and an evaluator still need to be implemented.
> 
> I hope this can be useful:
> 
> - as an example of a basic python activity, perhaps of some use to the
> sugarizing of SocialCalc and Gnumeric,
> - as a possible placeholder until we have a better spreadsheet if nor
> SocialCalc nor Gnumeric can be present in the Update.2 milestone.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tomeu
> 
> 
> 
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