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From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Hints on creating a spreadsheet under X
Summary: New X programmer needs hints
Keywords: layout, canvas, low-level stuff, template
Message-ID: <2928@crash.cts.com>
Date: 31 May 90 19:13:47 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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I'm just about to start designing a VERY simple spreadsheet
application within X and wonder if some kind soul out there
has any hints or pointers so that I don't run down a blind alley.
I've coded a spreadsheet in sunview (a long time ago) and found I had
to allocate a lot of space for virtual cell store. This can't be the
way to go since I should only need space for those cells that are
"on screen" (I'd like to dynamically allocate as I scroll).

Can anyone out there suggest an X idiom that I should investigate?

tia

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