Re: Fixed header row and contribution to the Nebula project

Hi Anders,

Sorry for the delay of my response. First of I'd be glad if
I could help 
you in any way to get this feature into Grid.

Last week I had a chance to talk to my customer and it looks
like I get 
contracted but I will start on an Grid-Extension some time
in April. I 
think this doesn't meet your time constraints.

I've updated the patch to make it apply to HEAD as Chris
asked in the 
bug but frankly I'm at this moment not the right person to
talk to 
because I don't fully understand the if my solution breaks
with 
assumptions made in Grid (it was the first time I took a
look at Grid code).

What I did to get the header in was the following:
1. Searched how the Top-Header-Offset is done
2. Wherever this offset is used I simply added my artificial
column

I will try to take a look tomorrow and see how I can improve
the patch 
but I think we need to wait for Chris to comment on how I'm
doing things 
because he really knows the 10.000 lines of code 

I'd say we should work on the features step by step:
a) Integrate fixed header support
b) Integrate fixed footer support

Tom

Anders Baumann schrieb:
> Hi Tom.
> 
>  
> 
> I am sorry to bother you and I hope that it is ok that
I write to you 
> directly. I am writing to you about the “fixed header
row” feature of 
> the Grid widget that you have written about in the
Nebula news group.
> 
>  
> 
> My company, Maconomy, really needs this feature so we
would like to try 
> and implement it and contribute it back to the Nebula
project. Hopefully 
> you will be willing to help and advise us.
> 
> In the news group message you write that your source is
only a proof of 
> concept implementation. Can you explain to us how the
real 
> implementation should be done? What should we
change/improve in your 
> source code? What features are missing or should the
solution be 
> conceptually different?
> 
> 
> I found the page htt
p://www.eclipse.org/nebula/contrib_process.php about 
> contributing to the Nebula project. Should we follow
this procedure and 
> write a mail to the mailing list?
> 
> 
> Best regards and thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Anders Baumann
> 
> www.maconomy.com <http://www.maconomy.com&g
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> 
>  
> 

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