On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:02:13 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

> On 16/09/18 19:17, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> I'm in the process of creating a desktop application to display and
>> edit data that's best treated as a ragged array of Strings: it is quite
>> unlikely that all rows in the array will be the same length.
>>
>> I've built and debugged a Datastore class to hold it as an ArrayList of
>> ArrayList  - the ArrayList being in a wrapper class
>> representing a row of fields. The DataStore allows rows, columns and
>> individual fields to be inserted, deleted, and the fields to be
>> modified.
>>
>> Datastore extends AbstractTableModel because I was initially intending
>> to use a JTable to display and manipulate its contents, but now its
>> successfully manipulating the ragged array I'm having twinges of doubt
>> about how whether a JTable can is the best way of displaying it and
>> allowing it to be viewed and modified, i.e. can a JTable deal
>> successfully with the missing elements at the end of rows in a ragged
>> array?
>>
>> Would I be better off with a custom built structure containing, say, an
>> array of JButtons to display fields in the ragged array and that can be
>> clicked to add a field, edit or delete it?
>>
>> I'll be very interested to hear how you've handled, or would handle,
>> this display problem.
>
> XML/XLST to a web browser.

...and modifying it? Saving the result?


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