[scribus-dev] Tables GSoC - Weekly Report #10

[Elvis Stansvik]

Hi Craig,

2011/8/10 Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au>:
> ...
> One thing to try to avoid or make nice will be the click count to get into
> text edit mode on the cells..
> ie.. I'd like a double click on the table to get into edit mode on the
> clicked cell, I think that fits with other editors (excluding a direct edit
> app-wide mode which we will add in the future). Triple click is a hassle,
> ie.. click to select, click to get a cell, click to edit. bleagh.

Absolutely. I think the goal should be that after double clicking a
table, the user should directly be able to

- Start typing text into the double clicked cell.
- Resize rows/columns/table.
- Select cell/region of cells.

without having to do any further clicks with the mouse.

I don't think there should be any problems getting this behavior to
work, and once I'm done with the text editing I'll start fitting the
different modes/gestures together to accomplish this.

At the moment, cell selections are done simply by clicking a cell or
initiating a drag gesture on it. But that's just because there's no
text editing yet. Once text editing is there, it should work the same
way as in InDesign/OO.o/Word I think: starting a drag gesture in a
cell will select a range of text, and only if the mouse cursor goes
outside the cell during the drag will the cell selection gesture be
activated.

> 12 days to coding stops for the project, ie, that's when evaluation starts.
> Just a reminder..
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/codeguidelines

Ah right, they want a code submission. I think last time I did a `git
format-patch --author=... --since=...' or something like that. Should
work this time around again. Thanks for the heads up!

Take care,
Elvis