I'm back on this, and starting to make some (slow) progress. I've started a Google Docs document to try to make some order out of the chaos that is the current state of TLF Tables. This is just a place where I'm jotting down my findings as I go and my thoughts on direction as I work on this. I made the document publicly editable and would love input. If there's anyone out there that has answers to the questions I'm posing, it would be very helpful!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sT0IAiMfIOBVgmo8wwF6ZZviuNFcW2bUfQoj0zDmSog/edit?usp=sharing Harbs On Sep 10, 2013, at 11:22 PM, Harbs wrote: > My first tests are not very encouraging… > > Trying to compose the table results in this function returning null: > static tlf_internal function beginFactoryCompose():SimpleCompose > { > var rslt:SimpleCompose = _factoryComposer; > _factoryComposer = peekFactoryCompose(); > _savedFactoryComposer = null; > return rslt; > } > > Looks like I need to the composition process... > FWIW, it made no difference whether I added the rows to a TableBodyElement or > to the table directly. > > On Sep 10, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> Hi Harbs, >> >> I see code for Tables, but I'm not sure it is "officially" there. Or even >> complete, or even working at a prototype-level. >> >> So good luck with it. I might be able to ask folks who used to work on it >> a few questions, but I'm pretty sure their memories of it are pretty dim >> by now. >> >> -Alex >> >> On 9/10/13 6:16 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I knew I was going to spend some real time on this one day, and that time >>> is coming really soonŠ >>> >>> Before I dig in too deeply, what's the status on TLF Table support? I >>> know it's officially there, but I don't see any documentation on it -- >>> not even the basics on how it's supposed to be used. >>> >>> I fully expect to find bugs once I start really digging into it, but some >>> documentation (any) would be nice to get me started. >>> >>> Looking at the source code, I see the following classes: >>> >>> TableElement >>> TableBodyElement >>> TableColElement >>> TableRowElement >>> TableColGroupElement >>> TableDataCellElement >>> TableFormattedElement >>> >>> I understand the structure like this: >>> >>> * A TableElement is the top level element for any table >>> * All elements in a table inherit from TableFormattedElement >>> * The bottom level of a table which needs to contain one or more >>> ParagraphElements in a TableDataCellElement >>> * TableDataCellElements must reside within a TableRowElement >>> >>> After this things get a bit fuzzier. >>> >>> What is TableBodyElement used for? >>> How is TableColGroupElement and TableColElement used? (I assume they are >>> used for formatting table columns, but the details are not very clear to >>> me.) >>> What about header and footer rows? Is that supported yet? >>> Header and footer columns? >>> Is breaking tables across containers supported yet? >>> >>> I have not started studying how to specify table formatting either. I'm >>> hoping that's obviousŠ >>> >>> I'll try to add some documentation to the source code as things become >>> clearer to meŠ >>> >>> Harbs >> >
