How would you implement that? Another iteration #lang scheme/gui (define grid-pasteboard% (class pasteboard% (init-field w h) (define/override (insert snip r c) (super insert snip (* c w) (* r h))) (super-new))) ;; accepts data-grid (list of columns) (define data-grid-pasteboard% (class pasteboard% (init-field data-grid (col-widths '(75 55 65)) (row-height 16) ) ;; create new list that is the cumulative sum of the source list (define (cumulative-sums offsets) (foldl (lambda (offset cum-list) (append cum-list (list (+ offset (last cum-list))))) (list 0) ; start from 0 offsets)) ;; column widths -> col offsets (define (column-offsets col-widths) (cumulative-sums (drop-right col-widths 1))) ;; (define col-offset (let ((offsets (column-offsets col-widths))) (lambda (col) (list-ref offsets col)))) ;; rows are all the same height (define (row-offset row) (* row row-height)) ;; initialise pasteboard (define/override (insert snip row col) (super insert snip (col-offset col) (row-offset row))) (define (grid-ref datagrid row col) (list-ref (list-ref datagrid col) row) ) (super-new) (for ([col (in-range (length data-grid))]) (for ([row (in-range (length (car data-grid)))]) (insert (make-object string-snip% (grid-ref data-grid row col)) row col) )) )) (define f (new frame% [label "Simple Edit"] [width 200] [height 200])) (define c (new editor-canvas% [parent f])) (define t (new grid-pasteboard% (w 66) (h 16))) (send t insert (make-object string-snip% "at23") 2 3) (send t insert (make-object string-snip% "at23") 2 2) (send t insert (make-object string-snip% "at23") 3 2) (send t insert (make-object string-snip% "at23") 1 1) (send t insert (make-object string-snip% "at23") 0 0) (send c set-editor t) (send f show #t) ;; (define f2 (new frame% [label "Simple Edit"] [width 200] [height 200])) (define c2 (new editor-canvas% [parent f2])) (define t2 (new data-grid-pasteboard% (data-grid '(("name" "Stephen" "Patrick") ("age" "39" "38") ("eye-colour" "green" "blue") )))) (send c2 set-editor t2) (send f2 show #t) <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:01 PM, praimon <<a href="mailto:praimon@gmail.com">praimon@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, Thanks for your work. It seems we have this conversation every year or two. One of the most important features of the directory-table widget is the ability to manually resize the columns. Otherwise, either some of the data will be hidden/lost or the table needs to be too large (so as to accomodate any conceivable data entry). regards, praimon <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle<<a href="mailto:spdegabrielle@gmail.com">spdegabrielle@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, people have asked about a data grid on this list a few times. > > This is the simplest possible approach. I've tried and abandoned other > approaches when I realised they were too much work for my available free > time. > > Comments appreciated. > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- -- Stephen De Gabrielle <a href="mailto:stephen.degabrielle@acm.org">stephen.degabrielle@acm.org</a> Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 <a href="http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen">http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen</a>