> Bugs, bugs and one more time bugs. Alex,
What problems did you encounter with PagingScrollTable? Have you entered them into the issue tracker? - Isaac On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:53 AM, alex.d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 3 Nov., 15:30, Suri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> Well here are my concerns on both areas but before I get to that I'd >> like to mention that I'm developing I guess a relatively small module >> but something I think is complex in terms of the amount of >> functionality its providing. The idea is to have a table of data that >> is retrieved from the server and displayed to the user >> >> 1) The data should be sortable/pageable >> 2) When the user clicks on a cell/row: >> - the row gets highlighted >> - the info of that row shall appear in a "editable" row below the >> table where once the user makes and changes, these are reflected in >> the main table >> - once the user navigates to another row, the edited row should >> have some sort of marker displaying that it is dirty until the save >> button is clicked ( this is allowing for batch processing) >> - thus when a user decides to sort/page this information would need >> to be retained until the user saves. >> 3) The user has a drop down above the table to filter by a couple of >> the columns. > So far not a problem with both of them. > >> I looked at ext-GWT and GWT-ext. Both seem are somewhat ok about this, >> however with ext-GWT >> - You can't paginate/sort on the client side if I'm not wrong and the >> whole model seems to force you to do remote pagination which from what >> I saw, would basically reset the data each time - so not a good option > You can sort on the client side - it's per default that way if you > want to sort only the current page - in case you want to sort the > whole data and then have a page Nr. N, you will have to sort/page on > the server. New grid supports editing directly in the cells(so no page > refresh necessary). But i haven't used it yet. > >> And with GWT-ext: >> I tried implementing it however, ran into some memory overflow problem >> when trying to compile it. Plus, there was a file PagingMemoryProxy >> that was not available in the GWT-ext library but then I later found >> it in the gwtux library. Not sure why it is like that. > I do not use GWT-ext. The whole javascript-wrapper concept isn't the > best idea imho. > >> On the whole the problem with both ideas is that, I thought of them >> more as widgets but turns out they almost completely take over your >> code with a whole bunch of different things to do as opposed to >> standard GWT code. So, that isn't really an attractive idea. > Well, i found out that writting smth. as complex as Ext-GWT's grid > would take too much time and effort - can't really afford it in my > project. Using existing widgets bring some problems, mostly due to the > specific nature of your particular application, but they are solvable > and you need much less time for it. > >> Alex, >> What were the problems you found with PagingScrollTable? Just curious >> to know since I'm trying to get an idea of what I might need/ not >> need. > Bugs, bugs and one more time bugs. Imho you'll need far more time > solving problems/fixing bugs with PagingScrollTable than doing same > thing with Ext-GWT's grid. But if you decide to write your own grid, > then using/rewriting/fixing PagingScrollTable might be a good > approach. > >> Thanks >> Suri >> On Nov 3, 4:46 am, "alex.d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > PagingScrollTable isn't really smth. one can recommend. You have more >> > trouble with it then anything else. Both GWT-EXT and Ext GWT have >> > paging tables. It's worth to take a look. >> >> > On 31 Okt., 18:03, "Isaac Truett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > Yes, I've used the original version in several places in one project >> > > and I plan on using the gen2 incarnation in another project. I highly >> > > recommend PagingScrollTable. >> >> > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Suri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > > Hi Issac, >> > > > I had looked at that initially but got discouraged by the comments >> > > > below on the page. Have you used it? Is it any good? >> >> > > > Thanks >> > > > Suri >> >> > > > On Oct 31, 9:25 am, "Isaac Truett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > >> The GWT Incubator has a PagingScrollTable. >> >> > > >>http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit-incubator/wiki/PagingScro... >> >> > > >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Suri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > >> > Is there a widget available for pagination/sorting? Other than the >> > > >> > ext >> > > >> > code. >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
