Horizontal table with checkboxes

Question

Hi,
I need to create a horizontal table. With this i mean the column aren't on top but on the left side and the data goed from top to bottom. You often see this construction to make it easy for user to compare values. I also need to display in the last row for every column a checkbox.....as to select that data column
Something like this:
              | X | Y |
name     |    |    |
descr     |    |    |
              | 0 | 0  |
I managed to create the table dynamically but i cant seem to find a way to a the checkboxes because the go by column and not by row. I tried adding them in a seperate container underneath but i can't seem to get hold of the column widths at runtime.
Another possibility which i thought maybe would work, is not to work with a table but to simulate this and just create it with a container with Gridlayout and filling it like a grid. Dont know if this woulr workd though...
Any thoughts or idea's?
Much thanks & regards,
Hugo

Answer 1

Hi Hugo,
This is the complete code for achiving a simple sceanrio where you would have
both checkBox and textview in the same column.
if(firstTime)
         int elementIndex =0;
         IWDTable table = (IWDTable)view.getElement("Table");
         for(int i=0;i<wdContext.nodeTableNode().size();i++){
         IWDTableColumn tableColumn = (IWDTableColumn)view.createElement(IWDTableColumn.class,"tableCol"+elementIndex+i);
          elementIndex++;
         Iterator iterator = wdContext.nodeTableNode().getNodeInfo().iterateAttributes();
         while(iterator.hasNext()){
               IWDAttributeInfo attInfo = (IWDAttributeInfo)iterator.next();
               IPrivateAView.ITableNodeElement tableNodeElement = wdContext.nodeTableNode().getTableNodeElementAt(i);
               IWDTableStandardCell stanCell = (IWDTableStandardCell)view.createElement(IWDTableStandardCell.class,"standardCell"+elementIndex);
               elementIndex++;     
              if(attInfo.getDataType().getLocalName().equalsIgnoreCase("string")){
                    IWDTextView textView = (IWDTextView)view.createElement(IWDTextView.class,"textView"+elementIndex);
                    textView.bindText(attInfo);
                    textView.setVisible(WDVisibility.VISIBLE);
                    elementIndex++;
                    stanCell.setEditor(textView);
                    stanCell.setVariantKey(elementIndex+ "String");
              else{
                    IWDCheckBox checkBox = (IWDCheckBox)view.createElement(IWDCheckBox.class,"checkBox"+elementIndex);
                    checkBox.bindChecked(attInfo);
                    checkBox.setVisible(WDVisibility.VISIBLE);
                    elementIndex++;
                    stanCell.setEditor(checkBox);
                    stanCell.setVariantKey(elementIndex+ "Boolean");
               tableColumn.addCellVariant(stanCell);
               tableColumn.setVisible(WDVisibility.VISIBLE);
               table.addColumn(tableColumn);
         table.bindDataSource(wdContext.nodeTableNode().getNodeInfo());
Regarding the the data source in this case you can create a node i.e table Node with least an attribute of type String and another of type boolean.Create and add
node elements in wdDoInit() for the same.
Regards
Amit