On Feb 9, 4:20 am, Stephen Chin <[email protected]> wrote: > To my knowledge, the JavaFX team is not rushing a DataGrid/Table control > for the reasons Osvaldo mentioned below. They want to make sure that > they have a very robust API, and it is not a simple task to get it right.
On the hand, shipping yet another major JavaFX release (the third one) without a data grid is a bad decision IMHO. Most applications have report / tables, and not having a standard JavaFX component for that sucks a lot. Sun/Oracle has worked on JavaFX for around three years when the next JavaFX release shipped, and it had the resources to build charting components and to rewrite whole the "2D/3D drawing stack" for the upcoming release, if I'm not mistaken), but you couldn't find the engineers to build a table component?! On the other hand, I can see where you need to take your time to do this right: In Flex, you've had the regular data grid since the very beginning and - since Flex 3.0 - the advanced data grid (can show trees, multi-column sorting) and the OLAP grid (http://www.adobe.com/ devnet/flex/tourdeflex/web/, "Flex Core Components - UI Controls - Tree and Grid Controls"). These two new grids are totally different from the regular data grid (and kinda buggy from what I heard). This sucks, too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
