Raghuram, Will "getRow (i).getCol (j)" still return a separate ActionForm for each cell? I was trying to avoid the overhead of creating 600 (e.g. 20 rows by 30 columns) ActionForms each request. I know they are lightweight object, but it still seemed excessive.
Thank you - Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: Raghuram Kanadam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:00 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Struts handling for a spreadsheet look-and-feel form > > > Hi Richard, > I'm not sure about the look and feel but with respect > to your cells property = "row[i].col[j]" > which would invoke getRow (i).getCol (j), So probably you > could have a 2d array which returns a reference to a cell object!. > > Will elaborate if needed > :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Mixon (qwest) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Struts handling for a spreadsheet look-and-feel form > > > Hope someone can give me some pointers here. > > I need to come up with a "version 2" (i.e. improved) form for entering > data. At first blush, it does not seem out-of-the-ordinary - very > similar in look and feel to a spreadsheet. The first column > has person's > names, subsequent columns represent a data collection > observation (keyed > by date) - down each observation column (i.e. in each "cell") the > numeric values for each person need to be entered. > > I need help in two areas: > > 1) I want the look and feel to be nice and spread-sheet like as that's > what folks are used to. I really do not want to do this with an applet > hower, I want to stick to HTML forms, Struts and Javascript. > > For this first issue, I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions or > reference sites that have the desired look-and-feel. > > 2) How to structure the ActionForms for this. I've done Struts forms > with a variable number of rows/lineitems, but always with a > fixed number > of columns. It seems like an awful lot of overhead to have an > individual > ActionForm instance for each cell - but I do not seen any other way to > have the number of rows and columns variable. > > Or should I even use ActionForms? Is there another approach that is > better? > > Thanks in advance - Richard > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
