grasping the data grid

Éric Miclo eric.miclo at wanadoo.fr
Tue Mar 31 08:42:25 EDT 2009


Hello,

I didn't have the chance to watch at the webinar session (only the  
latest minutes).
Does somebody know if it can be watched or downloaded somewhere?

Best,

ÉrIC

Le 31 mars 09 à 11:07, Bernard Devlin a écrit :

>
> Hi,
>
> I just watched the webinar session.  Thanks to the folks who went to
> the trouble of organizing it and putting it online.  I think it might
> be a very important element to consider when getting to grips with the
> data grid.
>
> Before I watched the webinar I played with the data grid for a while.
> I didn't really grasp how to use column or row templates, even after
> reading Trevor's documentation.  However, watching the webinar brought
> that home to me.
>
> Following Trevor's mention that he'd used the data grid with 50,000
> rows from sqlite, I put 100,000 rows into a data grid.  It still
> sorted remarkably quickly - maybe 2 seconds to sort by a column and
> display it.  I'm assuming from his mention of optimization, that the
> data grid is really just a window onto a list, but if so, it appears
> seamless to me.  I also noted in the webinar that he mentions that the
> grid's display can be hooked up to a result set cursor, and the
> display of the 50,000 records was even faster.
>
> I saw mention by Bill that the DG was implemented as a scripted group
> and that it was pretty amazing.  I was not disappointed - it's very
> impressive work. I would never have thought that controls could be
> grouped to produce something as complex as the data grid.  ListMagic
> seems simpler to use, but is also less powerful.
>
> Bernard.
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