Ken’s Sandbox

I have been working with some of the features of the Rico project for some time now. One of the nicest components is the Javascript data grid (LiveGrid). The thing about this grid is that it will display thousands of rows fetching small segments of the data as the user scrolls.

The original LiceGrid in the Rico project has been enhanced by Mat Brown (http://dowdybrown.com) to include resizable columns, filters, frozen columns, horizontal scrolling, just about every feature you would see in a data grid in a desktop application.

I keep seeing the same questions posted over and over in the Rico forums about the Rico grid. For the most part the implementation of the two grids is very similar. However the advanced features require quite a few differences in initialization parameters so the following discussion covers Mat’s LiveGrid Plus. (more…)

One of the eye candy functions of the Rico library is the ability to round the corners of a div element. Though I do not actually use this in my projects, over the past few days I have responded to posts on the Rico forum asking for help with this function. Though I’m no expert, I have learned a little about the workings of Rico rounding and with all of the requests for any documentation, figured my comments are better than nothing. So here goes.

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