On May 13, 2007, at 00:32 UTC, 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.
What do you mean by "merging cells"? > 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. But as you say, it's very hard to get right -- I suspect that if you get half a dozen RB programmers who want a "grid control" in a room, you'll have half a dozen different ideas of exactly what that means. But, FWIW, I did once start to right a spreadsheet in RB. It was working fine; I simply lost interest in the project. I could probably clean it up and release it as open-source. I'm not sure how this is a major gap, though -- how many people need to write a spreadsheet in RB? And if you're not writing a spreadsheet, what do you need such a control for? All the apps that I can think of (apart from spreadsheets of course), which have something like this, have it behave much more like our current Listbox than like a spreadsheet. Maybe some use cases would help clarify things? Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strout Custom Solutions _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
