Adobe Flex data grid had it all figured out. It was by far the best data grid component I ever had an opportunity to work with. Back in 2010 I contracted for a

Adobe Flex data grid had it all figured out. It was by far the best data grid component I ever had an opportunity to work with. Back in 2010 I contracted for an aircraft spares supplier in the UK. All their work was based on the grids. The main ones were a supply order and a purchase order. Creating either order was done through an editable grid with many items per order, one per row. Tabbing through to the end of the row added a new editable row, focused the part number field and allowed the user to start typing the part number. While typing, suggestions would show up. Once the part number was in, they would move through the columns and put stuff like price, quantity, unit of measure, select oldest batches in case of a sales order and an item with a shelf life. In case of a PO, it would automatically bring in items booked in for items on a back order. It was awesome. Worked flawlessly regardless of the resolution, I could put any Flex component in a cell with just a few lines of actionscript. Flex would scale everything properly with its percentage based sizing. It’s fascinating that 11 years later, we still don’t have anything comparable to Flex. There are some good grid components out there but none are as simple to program as Flex grid.