[Testing] Latest Build of SocialCalc

[Samuel Klein]

Hello to you all!  This sounds like something that would be worth
adding to regular test cases for Sugar testing groups... and still a
regular request from many teachers for classroom use.

Happy new year to you all,
SJ

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Dan Bricklin <danb at bricklin.com> wrote:
> Luke,
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> Playing around a bit with the code: Reload seems to hang some times during
> redisplay. It must be throwing an error. There may be some timing problem. I
> think that the reading of the saved data is happening in the middle of the
> initial redisplay that shows a blank sheet, wiping out that blank sheet and
> changing values. Redisplay is now an multi-step thing, done on timer events.
> This is different than the release last summer.
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> So...I think if you delete line 325 in the web/index.html file you will skip
> that first redisplay. (That is how I do it in a testbed that has reload
> which has been working OK on my non-XO systems.) The line to delete is:
>  spreadsheet.ExecuteCommand('redisplay', '');
> which is right after:
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> spreadsheet.InitializeSpreadsheetControl("tableeditor");
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> That should work better. (index.html is based on socialcalc2demo9.html, but
> the part that does the loading is handcrafted for the XO by Luke out of what
> I sent him.)
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> Sorry for the confusion. I had the "load blank sheet" code the default, and
> then code for you to do a "load saved sheet" to be executed at a later time
> after things settled down, which can take an indeterminate amount of time.
> By skipping the initial redisplay, that blank screen is never shown.
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> -DanB
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