On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:55:15 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

> When I meant web app, I meant the POST / xmlhttprequest technology
> behind web app for updates. Not saying actually doing a whole packaged
> web app, like the fashion.
>
> You were looking for something with a responsive display for output,
> that in my mind is the HTML engine inside a browser, to display the
> output of an XLST. Maybe you can have an instance of a browser in your
> Java desktop application.
>
> Otherwise, you'll be designing form items, for every single data item
> display eventuality. I wouldn't call that fun.
>
Actually, its dead easy - in Java. For rectangular tables is really
simple:  - put the data in a TableModel and use a JTable inside a
JScrollBar to display and edit it with a suitable editing class.

Something a bit more complex is fairly easy too:

Derive custom cells (colour size, font) that register mouse clicks from a
JButton and those that merely display stuff from a JLabel. Now
dynamically assemble a tabular display using loop(s) to assemble a table
sized to match the data. Ragged arrays are only slightly harder: each row
can be a different length. Adding scroll bars is equally easy.

> I gave that up when I stopped developing front end databases in MS
> Access, and implementing mad VBA logic to hide form controls, linked sub
> forms etc..
>
There's always been better ways than that - almost all the 4GLs (yes,
even dBase or PowerBuilder) were easier to use than Access+VBA - the
better ones, e.g. Sculptor, would even build interactive forms and
reports automatically.

These days I'd probably look at using Limbas to set up web pages and
reports for PostgreSQL.


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