Advanced Layouts

[ccoupe]

This is another feature creep that some folks want from Shoes. Treeview and tableview layouts. I have no idea how that could be done in a Shoes Friendly DSL. I'm just bookmarking the issue.

[ashbb]

Is treeview layout like this? http://ashbb.github.com/green_shoes/snapshots/sample53.png What is tableview layout like?

[ccoupe]

In my vernacular, table view would be the scrolling panes in iTunes player (or Rhythmbox or WMP ) for author, album, songs and the width of each field in the table can be modified by the user. I know better but some people believe that shoes should be able to these complicated things.

[pjfitzgibbons]

Maybe :

table_config = { cols: 3, header:true, gridlines:true, ... }

Shoes::Table(table_config) do my_data.map{|d| [d.name, d.size, d.age] } end

[shideneyu]

Hi, is there any news concerning being able to create a new table in Shoes or implementing it on Shoes4 ? I've found this bunch of code, from someone trying to make it. http://hackety.com/users/kwicher/programs/table

Here is what I've done using that code (on top of that, I need it for my own software x] ) but there are a lot of issues and glitches. The code is provided on the debugging branch of my shid'o'crack repository.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2012/47/1353574321-screenshot-shoes-1.png

As you can see, it is ratherly ugly :-s I have found 3 issues with it: when we scroll and click somewhere on the table, it will select a random line instead of the selected one. The second issue that the "hover" behavior is really slow and isn't stable. Third issue, text size canno't be changed. Last but not least, the "leave" block is completely useless, I have found a way to refactorise the code, and saved a lot of lines, but the issues are remaining.

I think the best thing to do is to create a new table module from scratch. I'm sorry, I don't think I have the required knowledge but if I could, I will try to help =)

Maybe with Shoes4, making a nice table with swt may be more suitable than creating a shoes 4's own table module?

[PragTob]

Hi there, for me, this is definitely still on the road map for shoes4 as it's a cool idea! :-)

However, speaking from my point of view, we first want to get the basics of shoes right - then we can really see about enhancements, especially bigger ones like this one :-)

You can always help, we're happy about anyone helping us! And of course we'd gladly help you help us! =)

We'd have to evaluate, but if SWT has already a table module we might as well use this one and wrap it in a nice shoes syntax.

Cheers + Shoes on, Tobi

[shideneyu]

Thank you ! I'll try to understand how does Shoes 4's code work during the next days in order to try implementing one of these two solutons (debugging the SWT module I'm using, or use that SWT table module (it exists :) ! => http://www.roseindia.net/tutorials/swt/create-table-swt.shtml) )

I don't guarantee anything, but I would really like to do so, because I do really think that in order to be famous, Shoes needs to handle tables :) On top of that it will unstuck me for my last project and seems to be an interresting work.

I'll let you know the progress =)