192433 - getCellText only callable with column label not with column-index

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121568

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Roland Penning]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

To fill a custom treeview the function getCellText has to be called, it would be
handy if the cell could be approached with a columm-index. A treerow could then
be easier filled with a multidimensional array.
Current method:
treeView = ({
  rowCount : tablearray.length,
  getCellText : function(row, col) { return getRowCellData(row,col); }
});

function getRowCellData(row,col) {
  switch (col) {
    case "isbn"  : cell = 0;
                   break;
    case "author": cell = 1;
                   break;
    case "title" : cell = 2;
                   break;
    case "price" : cell = 3;
                   break;
  }
  return tablearray[row][cell];
}

Easier would be:
treeView = ({
  rowCount : tablearray.length,
  getCellText : function(row, col) { return tablearray[row][column-index]; }
});


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um... JS supports multidimensional arrays indexed by strings.  So you could do
tablearray[row][cell] indexed by string.

Alternately, you could name your columns '0', '1', etc...

Just thoughts.

Comment 2

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

this is actually bug 121568

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121568 ***