I don’t usually talk much about work and stuff I do there, because, honestly, no-one is interested.

I’ve been doing some research the last couple days about how to deal with some tricky little issues in swing – we have some designers at work who work with us and then design storyboards based on how they think things should work. Then it’s up to us to figure out a way to make it happen. Here’s the problem I’ve been working on for our thick client (Java/Swing). Let’s say that I have a JTable and I want to have multiple things appear in a cell.. for our example, we have a person’s name in column one, and a list of the foods they like in column 2. So far, so good, right? You make a multi-line renderer with a text area or Jlist, and have it calculate the appropriate size, etc.

Now it gets tricky. What if the user should be able to select one food from the list inside a single cell?

And then drag it out into another component.

Not easy but doable.

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COMMENT
AUTHOR: Rob [Visitor]
DATE: 04/08/2006 04:29:08 PM
Oh yes HHH one of my favorites.
“All the goood themes have been done. Used up, and turned into theme parks.” Maybe a theme park is what we need here. Maybe we just need to get away from the whole mess we call wrok and life for a while. There is an interisting question in this post somewhere I think. What would we do if money didn’t matter and we were left up to our own devices to do what we wanted to do with our day. I know if I was not driven by the need for a paycheck I would do something else with the daylight hours
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