ActiveWidgets Grid 1.0.2

My client, who is, amongst other things, a freelance civil engineer and a VB6 programmer, asked me to create a web-based version of his standalone Windows application. He wanted nothing less than an exact replica.

How to do a VB6-style ListView in HTML? I searched Google and found ActiveWidgets. Beautiful, they have a Javascript ListView (they call it ActiveWidgets Grid), just what I wanted. But when I tried out their trial version (ActiveWidgets 2.0.2), out came the dreaded words: “Evaluation version”. In red, floating right in the middle, at random intervals.

So I dug around and found that the previous version of ActiveWidgets Grid is licensed under the GPL. The only major difference that I can see is that it isn’t editable, unlike the latest version. Doesn’t matter, ListView implementations are rarely made editable, anyway.

So far it seems to be working fine in both IE and FF. Here’s where I found it: ActiveWidgets Grid Maintenance Release 1.0.2.

Note: for some reason the runtime version doesn’t work with Firefox 2, use the source version instead. Both are in the zip file. Also, the codebase is entirely different from version 1 to version 2, so be careful where you get your sample code.

14 August 2007 | Software engineering, HTML, Javascript | Comments