RE: Custom Grid type control?

Just to chip in with my .02...

> ...BTemplate has been so successful, it has probably kept many
> custom components from being built. As much as Barracuda was
> meant to sort of be Swing for the web, BTemplate + some of the
> other basic components are all that is needed for most
> applications....most people decide that it is easier to write a
> BTemplate-based interface than bother writing a custom component.

Precisely my sentiment. When we first created BTable, I thought it was going
to be a very important component. Later we came up with the idea of
BTemplate, and now I'd be hard pressed to think of a situation where BTable
would actually be _more_ suitable than BTemplate.

BTemplate is really so flexible, that the need for custom components is
greatly diminished, which is a good thing in my mind (even in Swing, you
want really want to be _using_ components, not _creating_ them...if a
component framework is well designed, the need to create low-level
components should be pretty rare. It is in Swing, and I think it is here in
Barracuda too. BTemplate makes that possible.)

With all that in mind, there's nothing that prevents you from building
custom components (another sign of a good framework, imho...it doesn't lock
you into to any one way of doing things). So the gist of my response is "why
wouldn't you just use BTemplate (but if you don't want to then you can still
create a custom component if you desire".

Hope that helps,
Christian
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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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"Coffee? I could quit anytime, just not today"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of JIM & ALISON DOW
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:05 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Barracuda] Custom Grid type control?
>
>
> Thanks Jake....
>
> We will see if building a custom component like this makes sense
> for the web
> page we are designing.
>
> If we go that route, I will encourage the client to allow this to be
> contributed (I'm working as a contractor on the project).
>
> Jim
>
>
> >From: Jacob Kjome <[email protected]>
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: [Barracuda] Custom Grid type control?
> >Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:32:58 -0500
> >
> >
> >Hi Jim,
> >
> >As no one has responded, I have to guess that either that what you seek
> >hasn't specifically been done or it has been done, but is not
> public.  The
> >only thing I have to add to the discussion is that BTemplate has been so
> >successful, it has probably kept many custom components from
> being built.
> >As much as Barracuda was meant to sort of be Swing for the web,
> BTemplate +
> >some of the other basic components are all that is needed for most
> >applications.  That is not to say that custom components aren't
> encouraged.
> >  They are.  It is just that most people decide that it is
> easier to write
> >a BTemplate-based interface than bother writing a custom component.
> >
> >If you have plans to build a custom table grid control and are
> interested
> >in contributing to Barracuda, we will be glad to consider your
> >contribution.  I actually have a tree component that was
> contributed a long
> >time ago that I really need to work into Barracuda as a standard
> component.
> >  Things like these would definitely help Barracuda to realize its
> >potential.
> >
> >Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
> >
> >Jake
> >
> >At 04:58 PM 7/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Anyone have a handy custom component that looks like a grid
> control and is
> >>flexible to pass models to it for header and table data?
> >>
> >>This seems like some custom use of BTable component.
> >>
> >>Thanks...Jim
> >>
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