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Wed, 09 September 2009 15:28

Eclipse User

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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Andy Czerwonka
3ES Innovations Inc.

Re: Grid [message #485651 is a reply to message #484941]

Mon, 14 September 2009 06:42

Eclipse User

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.
>
>
>

Re: Grid [message #485938 is a reply to message #485651]

Tue, 15 September 2009 11:02

Eclipse User

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@bestsolution.at> 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.

Re: Grid [message #485951 is a reply to message #485938]

Tue, 15 September 2009 12:05

Eclipse User

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@arcticpenguin.ca> 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@bestsolution.at> 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.

Re: Grid [message #485958 is a reply to message #485951]

Tue, 15 September 2009 12:43

Eclipse User

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

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.neb ula/org.eclipse.swt.nebula.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/nebu la/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@arcticpenguin.ca> 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@bestsolution.at> 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.
>
>

Re: Grid [message #598180 is a reply to message #484941]

Mon, 14 September 2009 06:42

Eclipse User