Table should update its column widths according to the data in container

[-Sami-]

I'd like that Table would update it's columns widths accordingly when data in container changes.

See http://forum.itmill.com/posts/list/477.page for discussion.

Happens also with latest nightly build. (15.8.2008)

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This is an design issue and needs planning, changing type to enhancement

[-Sami-]

Test case for the ticket

[Matti Tahvonen]

Assigning this to Marc per forum discussion.

Supporting this in our current Table will be very complicated. Would for sure need a separate rendering mode that would always try to adapt to width and this would rule out many of current features.

IMO wontfix for this. We would need a separate lighter table implementation (no scrolling, reordering, column resizing etc) to both client and server. This "feature" would sit fine there.

[Marc Englund]

Implemented in [5389]

However

This is sort of a questionable feature - the use case is valid and there is no easy way to add this functionality when-needed, but Table is specifically made to maintain column widths to avoid skipping when lazy-loading (there is no way to know how wide future content will be).

The current implementation is marked experimental and can only be enabled by extending Table and setting alwaysRecalculateColumnWidths = true.

We need to carefully think about this to avoid making the already complicated Table even more complicated. Is there a better way? Is this feature indeed incompatible with lazy-loading, and should be moved to a non-lazy table implementation?

Closing and creating 'review' ticket #2066