Enterprise Curl

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how to develop a rich table control, which is used to present data to users of applications based on the enterprise framework.

We saw how the {FastArray-of String}class can be used to represent row data, and how, in ReturnTable, the user can click on a column heading to change the sort order. We looked at how the asa primitive can be used to convert data types, used when getting the values from a cell, and how, by using the ReturnTableCell class, we can incorporate additional functionality into the TextDisplay ancestor. We investigated how to create popup menus, and how to link processing to menu items presented as options to the user, one of which allowed the user to save table data to the local machine using ...