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

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Editing is done through standard JFace-Viewer methods (see our snippets
collection).

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.nebula/org.eclipse.swt.nebula.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/nebula/snippets/grid/?root=Technology_Project

Tom

Andy Czerwonka schrieb:
> I found the code, but am wondering if the example feature shows all the
> Grid features.  It seems to be light.  For example, there is no editor
> support in the example - what does that look like?
> 
> On 2009-09-15 09:02:37 -0600, Andy Czerwonka
> <czerwonka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
>> Is the demo source somewhere where I can run examples to test out its
>> features?
>>
>> On 2009-09-14 04:42:34 -0600, Tom Schindl
>> <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>>
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> Though Grid is marked in Alpha State in reality it is very stable and I
>>> know many companies who are using it in production.
>>>
>>> It might happen that we are break some API because of e.g. typos in the
>>> API or better alignment to the SWT-API but that all you could expect to
>>> happen until we put out a 1.0 release (beside adding new features).
>>>
>>> We are working towards releaseing a stable version hopefully sooner than
>>> later but we need to fix some administrative stuff before we can do
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> Andy Czerwonka schrieb:
>>>> Is anyone using the Grid even though it's continually in an Alpha
>>>> state?
>>>> We're moving away from KTable, and I was thinking about going the
>>>> native
>>>> table route, but there are going to be some really important
>>>> features that
>>>> we'll miss if we go that way. e.g. multi-group table headers, etc. 
>>>> I feel
>>>> like I don't have a choice using SWT because KTable is dead, Grid is
>>>> Alpha
>>>> and SWT native is lacking features.
> 
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