Grid?

Hi I belive there is not currently a grid based control in MaxGui!

So what would be the simplest/best way to create a flexible grid of controls, that would allow data manipulation and refresh from a datasource e.g array or database table?

For example a grid that would allow a variety of controls with a flexible row/column count, e.g larger than display

Use a canvas and implement a grid UI yourself ?

And re-write all that code for text,list/comboboxes! I was thinking more along the lines of an object that would be an array of gadgets, and interested to hear peoples ideas on best approaches/potential problems?

I suppose that's possible, and a lot of work too, I imagine.

In the end, you should hopefully end up with something like this :


:-)

Yeah exactly!

How many lines of code to do that?

But alas MaxGui really does need a Grid control just so people who throw little apps together can have fun, without having to learn a whole new GUI api!

About 4 or 5 lines to create the grid (in this case with the ability to "split" into different views. Otherwise you can create it with one function call).

Then calls to set cell values etc...


It's been asked for many times, but as yet nothing much has come out of the requests.

Is that becuase grid controls are not 'native' controls provided by the OS?

No, it's because implementing a generic interface to use them on all of the supported platforms is a big job.

There are some snippets in the code archives that allow basic grids, but they all have some limitations on what you can do with them.

built-in grids really are a major missing piece in MaxGUI at the moment...

I agree, and I add ListBox with Multi Coloumn support will be a nice addition too...

PS: for Windows only there's an Hack to allow the use of MultiColoum support on Listbox

But it too still has some limitations -- e.g. you can only use images in the left-hand column. Better than nothing, but it would be nice if MaxGUI were to support them in full.

That's right. A multicolumn list box is not a grid.