On 30.03.2004 20:55, Tim Larson wrote:

Not sure if this is what you are talking about, but the name "repeater" has never quite sat well with me. When I explain it to people they look at me funny until I break down and say "it's a table!". This is not quite right, since it does much more than act as a static table, but do you have any ideas for a clearer/more intuitive name for it?

We use "Grid"....

Definitely a possibility. Clearly different than a database "table", which could give the wrong impression of always being 1-to-1 with a db table, and it is not tied too closely to html tables, which may not be how it is shown anyway.

Also "nested grids" gives a good visual picture that the phrase
"nested repeaters" never managed to conjure in my mind.  +1 "grid"

In XUL it's also named grid and the child elements are rows and columns.


http://xulplanet.com/references/elemref/
http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/grids.html

<grid>
  <columns>
    <column/>
    <column/>
  </columns>
  <rows>
    <row>
      <widget/>
      <widget/>
    </row>
    <row>
      <widget/>
      <widget/>
    </row>
  </rows>
</grid>

Joerg

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