Hi! I plan to use compositeTable as a replacement to classic tableViewer in my current Eclipse RCP client. I have to display 100'000+ rows and I was very pleased by its design. I have several extensions I plan I could post patches of, but I'd like to check my ideas with Dave Orme first:
- dialog cells: I have cells that display references. When a user wants to edit them I have to present a dialog that shows possible values and the possiblity to delete the current reference (ok, cancel, delete). I started looking trough your key handling in InternalCompositeTable and I'll probably use space & double Click to activate the dialog. - navigation & cell activation One important requirement is key based navigation. I tried to use native combos in cells and everything works fine on my gtk+ box. You can press alt+arrow down to show the list of selectable values. CCombo on the other hand looses the focus when navigating in the list. I assume that this is due to the difference where combo keys are handled natively. CCombo fails to superseed its binding to the internalCompositeTable bindings. If you try to navigate the items with the arrow key, the list gets closed and the table passes the focus to the next (lower) cell. I admit, that it would be nice to have a common behaviour to all cells, ex. space activates additional editing-widgets. But this would lead to a celleditor-like API. I suppose that's not what you wanted to end in? - columns? Another feature I think of is the capability to show/hide columns. The current code uses a pure row based design. It would probably be nice to refactor it to know the concept of columns, too. The framework could supply default column implementations for common data types. ex. an Integer-column would supply a text widget whereas Boolean-columns would supply a checkbox. Another benefit would be the possibility to supply default comparator support with it. A user implementator could have a working table with a minimum of code. I'd appreciate your feedback a lot! Greetings André _______________________________________________ nebula-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
