Re: UNO Writer: Merging cells results in wrong column count from XTextTable

So, really, I want to grab all rows and find the max columns count among
them.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 28/08/14 20:43, Grover Blue wrote:
> > I have a Writer document with a table that has two rows and 5 columns.
> > When XTextTable is first created, xTextTable.getColumns().getCount()
> > returns the correct count of 5. When I merge 4 columns in the first row,
> > xTextTable.getColumns().getCount() then returns a count of 2. But that's
> > wrong, since row 2 has 5 columns.
> >
> >
> > Is this a bug?  If not, how to properly get the number of columns/rows
> > in a table?
>
> must be this function:
>
> > sal_Int32 SwXTableColumns::getCount(void) throw( uno::RuntimeException,
> std::exception )
> > {
> >    ...
> >         SwTable* pTable = SwTable::FindTable( pFrmFmt );
> >         if(!pTable->IsTblComplex())
> >         {
> >             SwTableLines& rLines = pTable->GetTabLines();
> >             SwTableLine* pLine = rLines.front();
> >             nRet = pLine->GetTabBoxes().size();
> >         }
> >     }
> >     return nRet;
> > }
>
> as you see it just counts the cells in the first row of the table, and
> calls that the number of columns...
>
> whether that is correct or not is arguable: in core Writer tables, there
> are actually no columns; there are just rows, and each rows contains
> some number of cells, and there's no requirement that there must be the
> same number of cells in each row; the columns in the API wrappers then
> somehow badly try to emulate columns on top of the core rows-and-cells
> data structure...



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