Adding any widgets to List Grid cells example

[ThomasH]

Hello,

I can not found any Java Script example code how to add any widgets like buttons to grid cells mentioned here:

Widgets in grid cells: attach any component to any Grid cell. Includes automatic lifecycle management of components for load-on-demand grids, including a component pooling mode. Works for trees too.

http://blog.isomorphic.com/?p=145

Could you please provide me such an example?

Regards Thomas

[Isomorphic]

If you search the documentation for "recordComponent", you should find plenty of information and an example also exists in recent nightlies - briefly, though, you need to add this code to a ListGrid:

showRecordComponents: true,
showRecordComponentsByCell: true,

createRecordComponent : function (record, colNum) {
    // return any canvas.
    // if you want to show components only for certain fields, you can use something like the following code
    var fieldName = this.getFieldName(colNum);
    if (fieldName == "someField") {
        return [a canvas];
    } else if (fieldName == "anotherField") {
        return [a different canvas];
    }

}

[demer]

I searched on google for adding widgets as listgrid records and landed on this page from 2006. Great! it worked for me. however, i also want to span one widget across multiple columns. how do i do that? Although this question is in the smartclient framework, i am using smartgwt and i was able to apply the solution below to smartgwt.

Thanks and looking forward to a response.

If you search the documentation for "recordComponent", you should find plenty of information and an example also exists in recent nightlies - briefly, though, you need to add this code to a ListGrid:

showRecordComponents: true,
showRecordComponentsByCell: true,

createRecordComponent : function (record, colNum) {
    // return any canvas.
    // if you want to show components only for certain fields, you can use something like the following code
    var fieldName = this.getFieldName(colNum);
    if (fieldName == "someField") {
        return [a canvas];
    } else if (fieldName == "anotherField") {
        return [a different canvas];
    }

}

[Isomorphic]

This feature didn't exist until 2009. Perhaps you were reading the web page of a psychic ;)

Can you give us an idea of what you're trying to accomplish, from the end user's perspective? It's strange to want to span a component across multiple columns, and suggests that you may want to use an approach other than recordComponents.