And pretty soon, he'll back to what the datagrid does :-) Not that there's anything wrong with that but there's a crying need for something that fits between LC's basic table object and the datagrid when the requirements warrant it.
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> wrote: > On 10/03/2014 22:43, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> If I remember the genesis of all this correctly, Terence wants to use a >> table made up of individual fields for each column because, amongst other >> things, you can't right justify data within a tabstop. >> >> So he does need fields. > > He can take advantage of inheritance for backgroundColor and foregroundCoor > - create a group per line of display, with the fields for each column > within it > > - set the colors for the overall group, and only modify those for lines > which need it (as Mark did earlier) > > - set colors for those lines that need it (and inherit those settings > for all the columns in that line > > I suspect that (along with other improvements earlier) would be enough to > make any further changes academic - and Terence should be wary of spending > mor effort on diminishing and unneeded returns. > > But if there is still a real performance issue that is visible and > troubling, then we can start on harder measures. > > The original problem was stated in the context of scrolling speed. If that > is scrolling by page, or to arbitrary scroll settings, that's probably as > good as we can do. But if the real problem shows up when scrolling > line-by-line, then we could consider a different approach. Use the "group > per line of display" as above, but instead of re-writing all the lines of > data just to scroll one line, simply re-position each line-group, and write > in new text values for the one line that has to be newly displayed. > > -- Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
