Fixed Footer for Tables/Grids

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi to all,
in some applications I've found useful the feature to have fixed (not
scrollable with table data, like header) footers in data tables, for
example a row with total amounts, etc ... very useful in OLAP
applications.

What do you think ?

Bye,
Sandro

Re: Fixed Footer for Tables/Grids

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Ok.

Sandro

Re: Fixed Footer for Tables/Grids

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

It's certainly not a bad idea - just a lot of work :)  I'd say let's see if
we get requests from users based on real needs so we don't just invent work
for ourselves.  Unless of course you're volunteering to do this, in which
case, feel free to prototype it :)

-T

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> In my old web applications (web pages) I had to use TFOOT section of
> the table containing data, and make some css tricks to have the fixed
> behavior, so if the table
>
> Ok if other RIA toolkits doesn't have, but do you think could be
> interesting to explore this feature (could be similar to the Header
> implementation) ? And in HTML this is a standard feature ...
>
> In many OLAP applications I've seen this, also with tree tables,
> drill-up/down for navigation in the table data, etc.
>
>
> Bye,
> Sandro
>

Re: Fixed Footer for Tables/Grids

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

In my old web applications (web pages) I had to use TFOOT section of
the table containing data, and make some css tricks to have the fixed
behavior, so if the table

Ok if other RIA toolkits doesn't have, but do you think could be
interesting to explore this feature (could be similar to the Header
implementation) ? And in HTML this is a standard feature ...

In many OLAP applications I've seen this, also with tree tables,
drill-up/down for navigation in the table data, etc.


Bye,
Sandro

Re: Fixed Footer for Tables/Grids

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

> For what it's worth, I'm
> not sure any other toolkit supports such features in scroll panes.

As far as I know, Swing's JScrollPane only supports row and column  
headers, same as Pivot's ScrollPane. The WPF ScrollViewer class  
doesn't support any kind of headers. Not sure about other toolkits.

Re: Fixed Footer for Tables/Grids

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

Funny you say that - I actually had a use case for such a thing in an app
that I wrote recently, though I found a different way to go about it that
was much simpler.  It'd be up to ScrollPane to provide a column footer and
row footer, which would then mean that instead of providing a corner
component, it'd have to provide a top left corner, top right corner, etc.
It'd be a lot of work and impact ScrollPane's performance, so unless the use
cases are strong, it's probably not worth doing.  For what it's worth, I'm
not sure any other toolkit supports such features in scroll panes.

-T

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi to all,
> in some applications I've found useful the feature to have fixed (not
> scrollable with table data, like header) footers in data tables, for
> example a row with total amounts, etc ... very useful in OLAP
> applications.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Bye,
> Sandro
>