One question: Does it support Drag and Drop? I’d like to be able to drop some XML data inside the spreadsheet.

Thanks for sharing this component btw

Best,

Andre

http://drrflexblog.blogspot.com/

The demo rocks.
I love/hate datagrids.
Please, please release this as a Flex component so all I have is love again for datagrids.

CD

Those custom components can optionally implement a special interface. If they do that, then the spreadsheet component feeds them a lot of additional information and will listen for several events out of them. This is probably one of the biggest benefits.

But I’ll need to really test the limits of the system I have in place at some point.

Thanks for the offer Chris, I’ll keep you in mind.

Are you thinking about making it pluggable what the editors for cell values can be? Cause in your (cool) video, it seems to be text fields most of it!?

I have great respect for the DataGrid component and the people who did it. It’s a great component for displaying data, and as far as I can tell, that was it’s focus.

The thing that amazes me about the DataGrid is how you can throw just about anything at it, and it’ll try to display it. Arrays, ArrayCollections, XML lists, and you can even have mixed types in those!

** From here on out is pure speculation from me, I have no idea if any of it is true. **

Unfortunately I think they had conflicting design goals.
1) Make it powerful
2) Make is easy to use
3) Make it fast
4) Make it configurable

And it’s those base conflicting goals that causes much of the complexity in the code base. It’s this complexity that causes most of the frustration for people wishing to extend it’s functionality.

I’m fortunate in that I only have to please myself and I get to choose the goals. This component won’t be trying to accomplish #2 at all.

It’s a long ways from being useable by other people. Right now all the styles are hard coded in and the documentation is non-existent. I also need to fix a bunch of very major bugs. Oh yeah, it doesn’t listen for changes to it’s datapovider yet which is pretty important

I haven’t yet decided how I’ll distribute it.