Re: question regarding multicolumn table code

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

The problem is that this routine fails for multirows:
Assume this table

a b c
e f g
i j k

by setting cell "e" and "i" a a multirow, appendParagraphs leads to 
this cell content

No this is not the fault of appendParagraphs. You shouldn't be looking 
into that function at all.

"efgi"
but I need
"ei".


This is caused by the for-loop:

for (idx_type i = 1; i < number; ++i) {
   ...
}

If you supply number == 4 in the setMultiRow function, he will iterate 
from 1 to 4, thus adding e,f,g and i.

I guess you need somehing like :

int column = cellColumn(cell);
int row = cellRow(cell);
CellData & cs = cellInfo(cell);
cs.multirow = CELL_BEGIN_OF_MULTIROW;

[..]

for (int i = 1; i < number; ++i)
   CellData & cs1 = cell_info[row+i][column];
   cs1.multirow = CELL_PART_OF_MULTIROW;
   cs.inset->appendParagraphs(cs1.inset->paragraphs());   
    cs1.inset->clear();
}
The problem is that appendParagraphs  counts the paragraphs from left 
o right and I need to count from them from top to bottom.

appendParagraphs doesn't count the cells. It only takes the 
paragraphList of all paragraphs _in one cell_.

I know now the problem but are not familiar with the paragraph code. I 
cannot figure out how to write a routine that does what I need. Our 
code is often not documented and lines like

for_each(pit, plist.end(),
         bind(&ParagraphList::push_back, ref(pl), _1));

don't bother.

This is just like:

for (pit = plist.begin(); pit != plist.end(); ++pit)
   pl.push_back((*pit))

just copying all paragraphs from plist into pl.


makes me headache since I'm only a hobby programmer and not a 
professional one.

Don't ask me then, I'm nothing like a professional programmer.


Can you perhaps help me here?


I hope I did.

thanks again and regards
Uwe

Vincent