Original status: 3-Accepted; Suggested Status: NEW

Original Target Release: mako_dev; Suggested Target Milestone : Dev


Description:
Name: xyNNNNNN			Date: 09/21/2004


SYSTEM INFORMATION :
This is not a bug, only a feature request

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
It would be very helpful to be able to display images in DataTables using bound
rowsets. It should be possible to store images in a database table as BLOBS and
simply binding the datatable to the rowset would display the images on the
webpage. Currently, datatables can only include outputTextFields and
inputTextFields.
Two example application views are shown below. From my perspective, the main
thing is that the tables include text and images:
http://www.mysimon.com/Most_Popular_Digital_Cameras/4009-6501_8-0.html?tag=mysfd.top
http://www.pricewatch.com/h/prc.aspx?i=336&a=5693&f=1
It would also help if the displayed images could be made available for other
components to use. For example, if they were saved locally as files with easily
accessible filenames. Also, the image components displayed in the datatable
should be clickable so that clicking the image in the datatable would result in
the invocation of a programmable action method. For example, clicking the image
could invoke an image_clicked() method and pass it the primary key of the table
from which the displayed image was retrieved.


REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

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Evaluation:
We should address this in the next release of Creator.