Spreadsheet style input method (or AVV)

• To: mlh@BBN.COM
• Subject: Spreadsheet style input method (or AVV)
• From: John Aspinall <jga@harlequin.com>
• Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:53:17 -0500
• Cc: clim@BBN.COM
• In-Reply-To: Mike Harper's message of Tue, 25 Jan 94 17:00:10 EST <9401252200.AA00515@jekyll.al.alcoa.com>

   Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 17:00:10 EST
   From: Mike Harper <mlh@BBN.COM>

   Has anyone built some type of spreadsheet like data input system in
   CLIM (1 or 2)? Is this even a reasonable style of input to use CLIM for?

Sure.  A small "hardwired spreadsheet" (that is, where the computation
pattern of cells is fixed at compile time) is quite easy to implement
with a table inside an accepting-values.  Large arrays of cells will
probably overwhelm the default redisplay methods, though.

A serious spreadsheet - one that scales to large numbers of cells, or
that is programmable - is a heavier-weight programming project.  But I
still think CLIM offers some useful technology for implementing it.

• Spreadsheet style input method (or AVV)
• From: Mike Harper <mlh@BBN.COM>

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