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Re: Vertical Text - part 3

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On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 2:39:52 PM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:36:19 -0400, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, after rereading Martin's post I see he doesn't have a JTable so
> > the pointer is pointless.
> >
> Yep: using a JTable was the first idea I thought of, but the screen 
> layout doesn't match the JTable convention of a single header line 
> followed by a set of identical data rows.
> 
> Just so you know what I've been trying to describe, there's a screen shot 
> of the rostering tool displaying some test data (only three instructors 
> plus the special [NA] 'name') and four days) at: 
> 
> http://www.gregorie.org/temp/Screenshot%20-%20020715.jpg
> 
> I've sliced out some blank screen area between the matrix and the error 
> message and also a chunk on the right of the matrix - that's to make 
> image a bit easier to read. This version is using Knute's HTML trick to 
> display the list of instructor names above the matrix: you can see how 
> tall even quite a small name becomes.
> 
> The error message and associated red matrix cell describes why Barney 
> RUBBLE can't be rostered on the 12th of April: the blue and green cells 
> show successful duty allocations and the black one is an unrosterable day 
> (also shown by all the duty slots being marked [NA]).
> 
> In real life this screen would be showing 25 instructors and 57 rosterable 
> days, i.e. the matrix would be 26 x 57 rather than 4 x 4 you're seeing. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> martin@   | Martin Gregorie
> gregorie. | Essex, UK
> org       |

That screenshot is confusing.  Are you attempting to render everything on that window in a single JTable?  It looks like several linked tables.

You can literally make a JTable do anything if you extend the classes to make your own renderers and/or UIs.  I did.

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Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-01 16:54 +0000
  Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-01 18:25 -0400
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-01 23:09 +0000
      Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-01 19:44 -0400
        Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 00:19 +0000
          Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-04 18:18 +0000
  Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-02 09:09 -0400
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-07-02 07:24 -0700
      Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-02 10:36 -0400
        Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 18:38 +0000
          Re: Vertical Text - part 3 e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-07-02 12:54 -0700
            Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 21:55 +0000
              Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-02 18:46 -0400
                Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-03 10:38 +0000
                Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-07-03 16:44 +0100
          Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-07-02 16:21 -0700
            Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-07-02 16:43 -0700
      Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 18:01 +0000
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-07-02 17:44 +0000
  Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-03 08:20 -0400
    Re: Vertical Text - part 3 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-03 10:01 -0400

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