You are correct - Pivot's table rendering model is very similar to
Swing's and does not allow you to actually embed other components
within a TableView.
*sigh* and I thought I'd finally found a GUI toolkit that makes GUI
creation easy. Why is thinlet.com the only toolkit that allows
that?!?
As you noted in your earlier email, it is primarily for performance reasons.
In TerraTableViewSkin, you call the render() method of
TableView.CellRenderer in the following situations:
getPreferredWidth()
getBaseline()
layout()
calculateFixedRowHeight()
paint()
getVariableRowHeight()
getColumnWidths()
Most of the time, the cell renderers in turn call their
getPreferredWidth(), getPreferredHeight(), getBaseline(), layout() and
paint() methods. Also, in most cases, the cell renderer subclasses a
real component such as Label, BoxPane etc. So I cannot see a big
difference if the cell renderer would be a real component and those
component methods would be called directly. But I guess I'm wrong. ;-)
Maybe a TablePane would be more appropriate for your use case?
TableView is primarily used to present data, whereas TablePane is
used for layout.
Alas no, I need sortable table headers and resizable columns.
Dirk.
