Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!sho From: sho@tybalt.caltech.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: List manager, etc. Message-ID: <4693@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 16:34:46 EST Article-I.D.: cit-vax.4693 Posted: Fri Nov 27 16:34:46 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 00:53:31 EST Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: sho@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 26 I want to implement a very simple spreadsheet like window for purposes of data entry. What I mean by very simple is the following: 1) Cells can only hold numbers 2) The user should be able to click in a cell and get an insertion caret, and be able to use TextEdit like things (shift for selection, etc.) as well as type. 3) The user should somehow be able to select a range of cells. I thought perhaps the List Manager would come in handy, but after reading it over, I somehow don't think so. It seems very difficult to provide a mechanism to let the user edit the contents of a cell in intuitive way. (or at all) I know this may sound ridiculous, but what would be the overhead in opening up a TextEdit record for each cell? In my case, that would come out to about 600 records maximum. I also thought about having only one TextEdit record, but moving it around to whichever cell was being modified, and putting the right characters in it. This seems inelegant. I would rather not write this all from scratch, but if it is necessary, I would appreciate any tips you may have to give. -Sho