The answers in topics with similar titles haven't given me much of a resolution to my particular problem, but possibly I am not asking the right question. It might help knowing I'm an absolute noob when it comes to spreadsheets, so finding my way around is next to nil.
Currently I can set a basic function in the first cell A1 =ROW()
Simple right? Well now here comes the complication. If I click on the bottom right of the cell and start dragging I can then apply that very same function to a whole range of cells. Let's say I apply it from A1:A10. Every cell within this group now has the same function.
Hooray! We did it, right? I applied a function to a range of cells each with their own output. But wait, if I then go back to the original cell and change its formula none of the other cells change with it. GRRRRR!!!!
There are a couple of fixes I've come up with but don't necessarily know how to implement. The first is to have every cell link back to the original cell and reference its function. This would be useful if I wanted to randomly scatter dependent cells about the document. The other would be much more useful in an orderly group where you know the exact dimensions by specifying in the original cell the size of the array you want to apply the function to.
With that said, let me hear your thoughts.
The closest I've come to an answer is to use FORMULA() which returns the formula used by a cell as text. Unfortunately all answers on evaluating the text resort to scripting. How strange! I thought something like this would be common. Might as well get to scripting.
Hold on, I may have spoke too soon. An array can be made with =MUNIT(), but it's only square. Drats!
Ok... I'm hoping the zebra stripes will eventually become its own answer unless someone else beats me to it. So a simple array can be made with ={1,2;3,4} where commas separate values by column and semicolons for values by row except to generate it you have to press Control+Shift+Enter (because reasons?). I'm thinking now that I'll need to have functions that can generate lists of values based on a single function for each row, and pray that it'll work. So, back to looking. (Wow this is taking forever)
The way I was hypothesizing can't even generate a 1x1, e.g., ={ROW()} returns Err:512 which is a formula overflow.
Alright, in summary so far I've narrowed down the two options,
1) link every cell to the original formula
2) populate an array with a single formula
each with their own incomplete answer,
a) use FORMULA() to return the formula of a cell as text
b) create a hypothetical array like so ={LIST_OF_VALUES()}
These both require a strange form of the nonexistent EVALUATE() function to 'function' correctly. Isn't that fun?
Google Sheets handles case b by allowing ={ROW()}Control+Shift+Enter to generate =ArrayFormula({ROW()}). Working with the general case of any sized array being filled with a single function doesn't exist in the world of spreadsheets it seems. That's very saddening because I can't think of a much better tool for what I want to do. Copy paste it is until I need to use macros.
Depending on your specific use case, creating a user-defined function may help:
use the Basic IDE to create your function;
apply it to any cells on any sheet;
modifying the Basic code will affect all cells where the function is used.
I've elaborated the steps in an answer on superuser.
Sure, you could write some complex code to update functions, but wouldn't the easy way be just to drag it to the same range of cells the same way you did before? It should properly overwrite the existing code in there, and if it doesn't, you can just as easily delete the outdated code and drag the new code in.
Probably the best approach is to simply drag the amended formula over the range of cells (as advised by OldBunny2800). This is less error prone and easier to maintain than a custom macro.
Another option would be to use an array function. Then you only have to edit the function once, and the same edit will be automatically applied to the whole range of cells in that array function.
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I'm making a time-spending tracker based on the work I do every hour of the day.
Now, suppose I have 28 types of work listed in my tracker (which I also have to increase from time to time), and I have about 8 significance values that I have decided to relate to these 28 types of work, predefined.
I want that, as soon as I enter a type of work in cell 1 - I want the adjacent cell 2 to get automatically populated with a significance value (from a range of 8 values) that is pre-definitely set by me.
Every time I input a new or old occurrence of a type of work, the adjacent cell should automatically get matched with its relevant significance value & automatically get populated in real-time.
I know how to do it using IF, IFS, and IF_OR conditions, but I feel that based on the ever-expanding types of work & significance values, the above formulas will be very big, complicated, and repetitive in the future. I feel there's a more efficient way to achieve it. Also, I don't want it to be selected from a drop-down list.
Guys, please help me out with the most efficient way to handle this. TUIA :)
Also, I've added a snapshot and a sample sheet describing the problem.
Sample sheet
XLOOKUP() may work. Try-
=XLOOKUP(D2,A2:A,B2:B)
Or FILTER() function like-
=FILTER(B2:B,A2:A=D2)
You can use this formula for a whole column:
=INDEX(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(C14:C,A2:B9,2,0)))
Adapt the ranges to your actual tables in order to include in the second argument all the potential values and their significances
This is the formula, that worked for me (for anybody's reference):
I created another reference sheet, stating the types of work & their significance. From that sheet, I'm using either vlookup, filter, xlookup.Using gforms for inputting my data.
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFS(ROW(D:D)=1,"Significance",A:A="","",TRUE,VLOOKUP(D:D,Reference!$A:$B,2,0)))
I recently asked this question: Horizontally-Drawn RowColumn Class for Motif Library (C)?
In my previous question, I was having trouble getting the xmRowColumnWidgetClass to draw horizontally (row-by-row) instead of vertically (column-by-column). After playing around with it, figured out how to switch to horizontal drawing with the following snippet:
XmNorientation, XmHORIZONTAL,
So the code that creates the xmRowColumnWidgetClass instance now looks like this:
rowColumn = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("rowcolumn",
xmRowColumnWidgetClass,
parentWidget,
XmNnumColumns, 3,
XmNorientation, XmHORIZONTAL,
XmNpacking, XmPACK_COLUMN,
XmNspacing, 6,
NULL);
However, my new problem is that for some reason the XmNnumColumns field is now referring to the number of rows, rather than the actual number of columns. Before adding the XmNorientation, XmHORIZONTAL part, the xmRowColumnWidgetClass instance was drawing the objects from left-to-right but it stayed to 3 columns like it was supposed to. Now, it is staying to 3 rows, occasionally creating a horizontal scrollbar which I do not want. I only want vertical scrolling.
So I need the children of the xmRowColumnWidgetClass instance to be drawn horizontally from top to bottom, but I need it to only put a maximum of 3 per row and thus keep it confined within a certain width.
I tried playing around with the XmNnumColumns field, but things that worked with more children did not work for less children, and vice versa. Sometimes it made it 4 or 5 columns rather than 3, and sometimes it made it 2 columns with the 3rd column completely empty. I encountered many issues like this even when experimenting with things like using XmNpacking, XmPACK_TIGHT rather than XmNpacking, XmPACK_COLUMN and other stuff.
If someone is able to find the official documentation of the xmRowColumnWidgetClass and link it, that would be be greatly appreciated.
To anybody familiar with this library:
How do I create a xmRowColumnWidgetClass instance that draws horizontally (row-by-row) while keeping it to a certain number of columns?
It should be able to handle any number of children and add as many rows as it needs to in order to keep it as exactly 3 columns.
Another group of examples of this library:
https://github.com/spartrekus/Motif-C-Examples
https://github.com/spartrekus/Motif-C-Examples/blob/master/rowcol.c
XmRowColumn was designed to implement the top menubar and all the other menu classes... You are searching for a grid like widget, and so you have to use XmForm read the related question for that.
In short: try the WtTable widget
Longer explanation follows:
The behaviour of XmRowColumn regarding "columns" becoming "rows" when you choose a horizontal configuration is very unfortunate. The alternative of using XmForm instead of XmRowColumn for this purpose is feasible, but however it requires manually setting the children constraints, and even then, it's quite possible that you won't be able to achieve the automatic sizing implemented in XmRowColumn.
By searching today, I found the WtTable widget and it works fine for my purposes. It's "almost" as automatic as XmRowColumn and it doesn't require to set any constraints manually. I tried it in my Motif code, and works fine.
Note however that I said "almost" as automatic. The "almost" is because you need to specify the number of columns and rows, and you need to specify the column and row for each child widget. However, all of this can be automated: you can create a convenience function that internally manages counters for columns and rows, so that you pass a widget to such function and it puts it in the cell it belongs automatically: you can even make that function create a new row in the WtTable when it's needed.
So I have searched through several different questions related to this. None of them seem to be asking exactly what I'm looking for and none of the solutions I've found have worked for me thus far.
I have several columns of data (Player names) where each column's values are generated from a formula in the 2nd row of that column. The 1st row is a header (Game name). This whole range is the collection of which players are willing to play which games. These are columns D-J(ish, the list is dynamically generated with another formula, based on form responses)
I have another range of data where the 1st column is the Player and the 2nd is the player's PREFERRED game. This data is also generated with a formula based on form responses. These are columns A-B.
Here's what I'm trying to do
Using conditional formatting in columns D-J, I want to highlight the player's name if this game (in row 1 of this column) is their preferred game (range A2:B).
I've tried several different variations of VLOOKUPS, MATCHES, and FILTERS in the conditional formatting, but so far nothing has worked. The problem I run into every time is that I can't figure out how to reference the cell that the formatting is applying to, but still have it reference each individual cell over the whole range.
I know I could do this if I applied an individual conditional formatting to each individual cell. However that is a very time consuming and inelegant solution to this issue considering I'm expecting my data range to be much larger in the future. I need a conditional formatting formula that will work across the whole range or , at the very least, for an entire column.
This is a mock of what I'm trying to accomplish:
This is a link to a mock of my sheet so that you can clearly see the data layout and specific formulas I'm using:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wy1T6dWJwNC_EfdCAbkuxtkJH7y4Cg3x4IyEk6R567M/edit?usp=sharing
use:
=REGEXMATCH(D3, TEXTJOIN("|", 1, FILTER($A$3:$A, $B$3:$B=D$2)))
I wrote a little code in Fortran. But the code doesn't behave as I thought, and I can figure out where is the problem.
I will not put the code here because it has 1200 lines but here its philosophy:
I create a 3D grid represented by a four dimensional table (I stock a vector of 2 elements on each point of the grid, corresponding at the nature of the site and who is occupying the site). This grid represents what we call a crystal (where atoms can be found periodically)
When this grid is constructed, the code scans each point of this grid and it looks to the neighboring sites to count the different type of atoms or the vacancies.
For this last point, I use a triple imbricated loop which permit to explore the different sites and I check the different neighboring site using either the if or the select case instructions. As I want my grid to be periodic, I have the function mod in the argument of the if or the select case.
The problem is sometimes, It found a different element in a neighboring site that the actual element in this specific neighboring site. As an example:
In the two ouput files where all the coordinates are written with the
element type I have grid(0,0,1)=-1 (which correspond to a empty site).
But while the code is looking to the neighboring sites of grdi(0,0,1) It tells that there is actually an element indexed 2 in grid(0,0,1).
I look carefully to the block in the triple implemented loop, but it seems fine.
I would like to know if anyone has already meet this kind of problem, or know if there is some problems using mod in a if or select case argument ?
If some of you want to look closer, I can send you the code, with some explanations.
Arrays are usually dimensioned as:
REAL(KIND=8),DIMENSION(0:N) ::A
or
REAL(KIND=8),DIMENSION(N) :: A
In the later example, they are assumed to start at 1.
You could also go (-N:N) or (10:191)
If you use the compiler switch '-check bounds' or ;-check all' you will see if you are going outside the array/etc. This is not an uncommon thing to get hosed up, but the compiler will abort quickly when the dimension is outside.
Once it works then removed the -check bounds and/or -check all.
Thanks for your consideration francescalus and haraldkl.
It was not related to the dimension of arrays Holmz, but thank you to try to help
It seems I finally succeed to fix it. I will post an over answer If I fully understand why it was not working properly.
Apparently, it was related to the combination of a different argument order in a call procedure and the subroutine header + a declaration in the subroutine with intent(inout).
It was like the intent(inout) was masking the problem. But It a bit strange for me.
Some explanations about the code :
As I said, the code create a 3D grid where each intersection of the 3D grid correspond to a crystallographic site. I attribute a value at each site -1 for an empty site, 1 for a crystal atom (0 if there is a vacancy instead of a crystal atom), 2,3,4,5 for different impurities. Actually, the empty sites and the sites which received crystal atoms are not of the same type, that's why an empty site and a vacancy are distinguished. The impurities can only occupied the empty site and are forbidden to occupied a crystal site.
The aim of the code is to explore the configurational space of the system, in other words all the possible distribution we can obtained with the different elements. To do so I start from a initial configuration and I choose randomly to site (respecting the rules of occupation) and I virtually switch them. I calculate the energy of the old an new configurations, if the new has a lower energy I keep it, if not, i keep the old one. The calculus of the energy is based on the knowledge of the environment of each vacancies and impurities, so we need to know their neighbors. And I repeat the all procedure again and again to converge to the most stable (so the most probable) configuration.
The next step is to include the temperature effect, and to add the second type of empty sites.
Have a nice day,
M.
I am trying to simulate a piece of hardware, and this hardware has a static ribbon display.
to do this, I'd like to use a TextView. My display has 10 rows, with 25 columns. So I figured that a TextView should be easy enough.
basically, I would like to be able to say "insert/replace string S at row X, starting at column Y". i may need to only update a specific row, or even a single column within a row.
I have not been successful at getting this to work though. the best I have been able to do is to fill the TextView with 10 lines of 25 spaces when i create it, and then use the get_iter_at_line_offset to get the iterator of a line, and then push the new text onto that line.
but this will start appending text to the line, rather than replacing the existing one.
I need both row and column control (i.e. need to be able to set text at a specific (X,Y) coordinate).
I'm assuming this is somehow possible using marks.
Can anyone give me a quick example of how i can do this? Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot of documentation on this sort of thing.
You'll have to get an iter at a specific line, row X, and then use the iterator's forward_chars() method to move forward Y characters. Then delete the number of characters you are replacing, and finally insert the text you want to insert. You can do it all with iterators, I think - iterators are invalidated when you change the buffer, but when you delete text, one of your iterators is revalidated to point to the place where the text was.
If you're targetting GTK+ 3.x, you should really look into using Cairo. Since you don't actually need a text buffer, it seems like overkill and a bit of a mis-alignment to use the GtkTextView.
Look at the very basic introduction on how to draw with Cairo in GTK+. Then look at the text-rendering Cairo APIs, that should be enough to get you started.