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Bug 51272 - Autofill hints
Autofill hints
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
: 342801 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-02-22 19:05 UTC by Almer S. Tigelaar
Modified: 2006-05-24 14:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Almer S. Tigelaar 2001-02-22 19:05:58 UTC 
When using the autofill feature it would be nice to be able to
see (in the form of a small hint) the value that would be placed in the
end cell of the autofill range.

(If you have e.g. A1 "1" and autofill to A10 it would show a hint next to
the cursor with "10" (the value that would be placed in A10) in it)
Comment 1 Morten Welinder 2001-02-22 19:24:12 UTC 
While this would probably be useful, it might also be expensive.
Basically, we would need an efficient way of "incrementing n
times".  That is simple for numbers, less simple for the various
date formats.
Comment 2 Almer S. Tigelaar 2001-02-22 19:37:33 UTC 
Agreed, we would have to have some light, non-sheet-modifying version
of sheet_autofill_dir which only returns a Value pointer with the
value of the last row/column in the selected set.

You could argue about performance, however it is unlikely that people
will fill such huge numbers of rows/columns that the hint actually
degrades performance. (And especially in cases where a large amount of
rows/columns is involved this feature is a must have :-))
Comment 3 Morten Welinder 2006-04-30 01:05:53 UTC 
This is feasible with the new autofill setup.
Comment 4 Morten Welinder 2006-05-03 19:00:38 UTC 
Fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major release. Thank you for your bug report.
Comment 5 Morten Welinder 2006-05-24 14:08:02 UTC 
*** Bug 342801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***