Does anyone ever get frustrated with the user interactions involving the attribute table? I keeping wanting it to behave like a spreadsheet in Excel, which it does not. :] Maybe I am spoiled and expecting too much from Swing. Here is a short list of what is irritating me:
There is no horizontal scroll bar. This can be a pain when you have a FeatureSchema with lots of attributes. There is no way to double click on the seam between columns so that the columsn automatically "best fit" the data contained in the columns. There is no way to specify the alignment/justification of the data in the cells. There is no way to have the content of a columns cells "wrap" when a max width is hit. I was reading in one of my Swing books last night, and I couldn't immediately see ways to fix this using built-in JTable properties. It would likely have to be patched up with some custom cell renderers and some other tweaks. Does anyone know if there is an open source component or JTable extension that solves some of these issues? Do these issues bug anyone else? If I'm doing any serious attribute editing, I can always save my layer to a shapefile and open the DBF in something like Excel or Open Office, but I'd like to improve what I can with the attribute tables in OpenJUMP. I'm thinking I'd have to come up with a mechanism to save the user's table layout modifications, and that might be too complicated. Thanks for your thoughts. The Sunburned Surveyor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
