+1

Bryan Stearns wrote:
> I've been kicking this idea around in my head, and looking at the 0.7
> summary-table spec has prompted me to send it to the list...
> 
> We've currently got a summary Table implementation based on wx's Grid
> mechanism; it provides a framework for presenting a list of items in
> rows & columns, with scrolling support, hit testing, etc. It also comes
> with some architectural structure  (most in my face, the editor/renderer
> mechanism)  that constrains our implementation a little; our thinking
> occasionally stumbles over UI issues like sections, etc, that don't
> naturally fall out of using the wx Grid.
> 
> In thinking about future needs for the table, it occurred to me that
> we've already got the CollectionCanvas that knows how to present items
> of varying geometry on a variably-sized canvas with scrolling, dragging,
> and hit-testing. It seems like it'd give us more flexibility in evolving
> the summary view in the future. (As a bonus, it already uses David's
> header widget.)
> 
> So: should we think about building the 0.7 summary table on top of
> CollectionCanvas instead of the Grid?
> 
> ...Bryan
> 
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