More powerful GWT Grid / Using SmartGWT Widgets

[feuse8]

Hi,

I'm currently building an enterprise application that should provide Excel Like Tables. I would like to customize cells and have some other features GWT provided Tables/Grids/CellTables/DataGrids don't provide:

• fixed headers and columns
• sortable headers
• filtering in headers
• changing column size with drag & drop
• custom rendering of Rows (f.e. some rows should be editable, others shouldn't)
  

I decided to have a look for other widget libraries and had a look at SmartGWT. The ListGrid provides everything I need and so I built a Hello World example today. Testing in different browsers showed that the application does not to render correctly in IE10. So this leads me to the question if it's a good idea to use SmartGWT ui widgets in an existing GWT application?

Does anybody have experience / recommendations for me?

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards,

Andreas

[Alain Ekambi]

Smart GWT widgets  have the reputation to not play well with GWT ones.

But I cant tell how bad that is. I never used it.

We use a GWT binding for Ext JS and we manage to make them play well with GWT.

Ext JS comes with a really powerful grid component.

You can  a demo here : http://eemi2010.github.io/ext4j/explorer/index.html and find out more about the library here :

http://opensource.ahome-it.com/#ahome-ext

So maybe that can help you.

Disclaimer : I created the library

There is also GWT-Bootstrap (http://gwtbootstrap.github.io/). 

And Putnami(http://pwt.putnami.org/)

But I m not sure their grid component is as powerful as Smart GWT's or  Ext JS.

Regards,

Alain 

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[feuse8]

Hi Alain,

thanks for your recommendation. The main disadvantage in using ext JS / ext GWT for me are the license costs.

If somebody has a recommendation for another library I would be really happy ;-)

I am also thinking about writing a wrapper for a JS table implementation...

[Fabien Dumay]

Hi Andreas,

 

You should have a look on our framework PWT (Putnami Web Toolkit). 

All your needs are nearly covered :

• Fixed headers and columns : Ok you can fix the headers and columns via CSS, and you can make body scrollable
  
• sortable headers : The data are sortable on client side 
  
• filtering in headers : The TableFilter can be extended to be more advanced.
  
• changing column size with drag & drop : No provided right now.
  
• custom rendering of Rows (f.e. some rows should be editable, others shouldn't) : Ok

Have a look on the contact table sample : http://pwt.putnami.org/#!ContactsTable

You going to find a large bunch of widget designed on Bootstrap, and a solid framework to build your webapp.

PWT is Open Source (LGPL v3.0) and totally free. 

Regards,

Fabien

http://pwt.putnami.org