Q: spreadsheet-like input from a table

[glycerine]

I have a bunch of rows in a table, and I'd like to have two columns of input at the end.

Is there at present a way to enter values into the cells of a table? Table seems to have a double slice of concrete *TableCell, not an primitive interface, so I'm thinking not.

Suggestions for how to design this?

Thank you.

Jason

[rivo]

Please have a look at #46. This might be what you are looking for.

Let me know if that helps.

[glycerine]

Cool. I made that work with my hierarchy. Thanks!

It feels a little hacky, but meh. It seems almost like a "sheet" should be its own kind of widget -- since spreadsheets like things come up so often. In the spirit of YAGNI, I don't want to do extra work. Especially when things mouse support are on potentially being developed.

By the by, is mouse support super tricky? Just curious how hard that looks to be.

[glycerine]

I'll close this and comment over on the mouse issue.

[rivo]

This comment comes up in other conversations, too (e.g. #64), where users want to edit text with the TextView. I'm offering the tools to potentially implement something more complex but I'm not planning on putting a fully featured text editor or spreadsheet into tview.

Mouse support is probably not hard but it affects all primitives so I have to take some time to think about it and implement it. The easiest case is to use clicks simply to set a primitive's focus. But obviously, in your case that's not enough: You'll want Table cells to be selected on mouse clicks. Most of the work is coming up with a consistent architecture. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[glycerine]

Thanks @rivo.