Re: Groups inside Tables: Weirdness

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna eclipse co uk>]

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 18:35 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> This patch for table-demo shows some weirdness when putting a group
> (containing a regular item) inside a table:
> 1. The items are sometimes not drawn. In another more complicated test
> case, I've seen the items all being drawn in cell 0,0.
> 2. When you scroll down and up again, the first row of tables is not
> redrawn, making it disappear.
> 
> I would expect the items to be drawn as if there was no group in the
> heirarchy, because I have not done any transformation or set any
> properties on the group. Is that what's meant to happen?

Currently you can't use groups in tables - they don't support the layout
methods necessary. (There's a bug report in the old SourceForge bug
tracker, which I've been meaning to copy over to bugzilla.)

For now all you can use are embedded tables.

Damon