[news.eclipse.technology.nebula] Re: Grid Row Span

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have found out something could you file a bugzilla and post the 
id so people interest can attach?

Tom

Mark Proctor schrieb:
> Chris Gross wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Currently the Grid only does column spanning (i.e. horizontal) but not 
> > row spanning (i.e. vertical).  That is a feature I'd like to add but I 
> > don't have a timeframe for it.
> I won't to do a port of Drools Decision Tables, so we'll need this to 
> proceed:
> http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/drools/images/decisiontable1.png 
>
>
> I'll have a look over the src code see how difficult this is to add. 
> Does this in reality involve floating areas anchored to a point, 
> emulating a spreadhseet view with composites? How performant is that, 
> compared to the KTable approach?
> > Regards,
> > -Chris
> >
> > p.s.  I don't believe Excel even allows L shaped cells.  AFAIK it only 
> > allows rectangular merges.
> >
> > Mark Proctor wrote:
> > > The Grid control has a code snippet for column spanning, and I can 
> > > see that the header can have spanned rows. Can I have spanned rows 
> > > for a column in the main body? Can that block span rows and columns? 
> > > Does it even allow for L shaped merges? Just trying to find out how 
> > > far away the merging capabilities are from KTable or what you would 
> > > expect in a spreadsheet like Excel or Calc.
> > >
> > > Mark


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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