jit.cellblock feature request or alternative
Dear all,
There are several ways to display data in a table within MAX. I am aware of jit.cellblock, Mubu/ftm and bach.tree. None of these seem to offer the opportunity to wrap the text in text boxes like you can in a spreadsheet application unless I miss the options somehow.
Since jit.cellblock already has the option to control the width of individual columns, a feature missing in the other options, it would be nice if it also offered the opportunity to wrap text in their cells.
If somebody knows about another option I would be grateful for information.
Best and thanks, Hans.
If it's important enough, and you are a C programmer, you can make an equivalent in the SDK. I did that for Scheme for Max, making the s4m.grid object (I just realized I never made a video for that.) Feel free to look at the code, it's in s4.grid
One advantage of doing it that way is that it can be lightweight and run dead fast. I wrote it because jit.cellblock couldn't keep up with what I wanted to do without too much CPU use.
Happy to answer more if you wind up going that route.
Thanks a lot, that seems promising. Thanks for your good work anyway.
I checked your videos, but I did not find a representation of how that would look like. It seems that you have a fixed column width for all columns, but I guess that if I get it to work at all I can find out how to fix that as well.
I don't need it to be too fast as my purpose is not real time but more for editing. Though I do program in C, I wouldn't consider myself a C-programmer... I'll probably have to look into the MAX SDK again. It would be a distraction from what I am actually busy with. I am curious though to see what more will pop up from people dealing with this issue.
jweb with an html table?
Ah, Diemo, never saw that answer and I am revisiting the topic just now, that is actually a very good idea I hadn't considered yet and since I have to do some html anyway for other projects it can nicely fit in the flow.