Creating Grid like GUI (Similar to Microsoft excel spreadsheet)

Question

I want to create GUI like spread sheet. With resizeable cell size, filled with colour, Zoom in and zoom out etc features. Can I use draw2d for this?.

Is there any grid like widgets available in any Java based GUI frameworks? Or do I need to draw rectangle in rows and columns?

Answer 1

Have a look at the Nebula project in Eclipse. It has widgets with some of the features that you need.

http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/

The widgets which might be of most interest to you are:

• XViewer
• NatTable

Some years ago, before Nebula was in a usable state I needed a flexible grid control. At that time I found and used KTable. But I think it is no longer maintained regularly but it was simple to use and served my purpose.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktable/