On May 12, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Karen wrote: > I've not worked with Interface builder (and so NSTable view), Delphi > or VB but an Xplatform control like that which is much more more > spreadsheet oriented and ideally supporting merging cells and > freezing the top X rows and first X columns for scrolling would be > great. > > IMO the lack of such a control is the biggest single hole in the RB > framework. It's a hard control to create and get 'right' Xplatform > and keep flexible at the same time, but it would make RB a much more > powerful RAD tool and really needs to included and not a 3rd part > plugin. > > The Listbox is very flexible but it's heritage of being a finder like > list often makes trying to use it as a sophisticated grid control a > lot of work and ultimately a kludge.
In my opinion, this is dead-on accurate. It seems to me that REALbasic wants badly to be a great RAD tool for businesses and in business, databases are king (just look at the wide coverage of database functionality in REALbasic). The problem comes when you want to actually display the data. While the listbox is a nifty control, it leaves something to be desired for many data tasks. Further, there is no built-in grid control. So, you end up having to roll your own. In some ways I like this, because it has ensured my continued employment (much of which has involved writing new data display controls), but I don't think it is good for REALbasic. Granted, I could run out and buy a control or build my own, but for something so commonplace, this should be part of REALbasic. RB has the database part of the puzzle. Now I wish that it had the data display too. -Erick _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
