The Grid class from GWT is a layout handler and not a GUI widget at all. I suspect that you are looking for some kind of data table GUI widget control.
The ListGrid control from the SmartGWT project has all the nice bells and whistles but the download can be less than snappy. I don't think that it is too bad though. Check out http://myjsp.dynamicalsoftware.com/kato/ which is a demo containing many SmartGWT widgets including the ListGrid. I wouldn't say that the download was too terrible. SmartGWT works fine on many popular browser/OS combinations. The only place I found of relevance where SmartGWT doesn't work and GWT does is the iPhone. The Grid control from the GXT project might be a nice compromise between eye candy and download time but do check out their license first. @Mariyan has already recommended the PagingScrollTable from the incubator project. Also, you might be interested in this presentation ( see http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/gwt ) on GWT and some popular yet mature 3rd party libraries. The slide deck covers the very topic that you are asking about. I hope this helps. On Mar 11, 9:12 pm, Ken <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm exploring using GWT for future work and for a project I'm looking > at now I'm particularly interested in the Grid widget. The GWT Grid > just doesn't compare to that provided by SmartGWT, but I'm concerned > about using the SmartGWT libraries for several reasons: > > 1) It requires taking the whole library whole and it doesn't do things > in really the same way that GWT does in many cases. > > 2) I'm concerned about browser compatibility since it relies on JSNI > calls to the Smart Client library and not the Java->JavaScript > transformation provided by GWT. > > 3) I'm concerned that by using the SmartGWT library I will be > increasing the load time of the application since it will require > downloading the entire library again. > > So what I would really like is a grid control that has a similar > feature set as that provided by SmartGWT, but doesn't come with all > the extra baggage. > > Does such a widget exist? Is there at least a JavaScript grid that > can be used with GWT that doesn't come with all the baggage of > SmartGWT? > > Am I wrong about the disadvantages to using SmartGWT? Is it a better > choice than I have been led to believe by my research? > > Thank you. -- 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.
