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dinger2121

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Hello,
I am new to java - I have been programming in .net for quite some time.
In .net, there is a datagrid control which affords the opportunity to display data in a highly stylized format. For instance, you can use html in a form to highly customize the layout of table/grid "cells".
Is there anything in java that resembles this functionality?

thanks for any thoughts.

carl
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would I be able to bind that to database data, or would I just go through my dataset and create a new JLable for each record?
Is that recommended usage?

carl
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I don't understand how you like to bind it to database data. Of course you may store the html in a database - why not? And I don't understand the 'or' in your first question.
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...
String htmlLabel = resultSet.nextString ();
JLabel jl = new JLabel (htmlLabel);
maybe you can show in pseudocode what you like to do.

I don't know .net.

You like to populate a Table? In that case, you normally format whole columns identically. The sun-swing-tutorials cover that, look for CellRenderer.

Whether that is recommendet depends on what you like to do in what context - whether it can be done in other ways - better, nicer, faster, more easy - it depends pretty much on your context.


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in .net, you would just set the dataset (or List, basically any generic object set) to the datasource of the grid. you then call a databind method of the grid and that automatically binds the data.
The datagrid itself resides on the asp.net page. On this page, you declare the datagrid and then create a template for it using html - this is where the formatting takes place. So you are essentially binding a whole dataset to the grid, which knows that it is repeating so you don't have to use a loop to create a new row for each row in the dataset.

So I want to show all of the data, but not necessarily in a datatable type layout. I don't want the standard row and column view, I would like to be able to display it with some formatting.

hope that makes sense.

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