On 06/18/09 08:18, Jan Holst Jensen wrote:
> Whether it falls into that category really depends on how it behaves
> :-). Are you suggesting adding shapes on top of the cells that I want
> custom rendered - and then move the shapes whenever cells change so the
> shapes follow the underlying data around ? This is very much like the
> "you don't want to know" solutions that I hint at. Not easy to get
> working in a robust fashion - uh-oh.
>
> But maybe that is not what you suggested - can I really embed
> pictures/shapes in a cell so they are truly in-line in-the-cell ?
>
> My experience with adding graphics to a sheet (in both Excel and Calc)
> has always been that the graphics will not follow data in the cell.
> Let's say you have an address book in a sheet - column A holds names and
> column B holds the people's pictures (that is: pictures are put in the
> document on top of column B). As soon as you e.g. change the sort order
> of column A a name may then be matched with some random picture since
> the pictures are not moved when cell data is shuffled around. This is
> the number one problem with all solution attempts that just add standard
> graphics to a sheet.
There are some issues with shapes and their positions. Issue 102061 will
improve that a bit, but basically the component would have to refresh
the shapes. A special API for cell rendering would certainly make things
easier, but we don't have that.
Niklas
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