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The E-Table package implements an editable table that provides
user-defined rendering, user-defined editing, sorting and grouping of
the objects displayed.

It is inspired by Java's Swing JTable object.  There are models for
the actual table contents and for the table headers; they are the
actual repository of information.

The objects are rendered by various view objects.  In the current code
base, we use we use GnomeCanvasItems to do the rendering.  One for
each table and one for the headers.

* The Models

All of them are GtkObjects.

e-table-model.h, e-table-model.c:

    These implement the abstract E-Table-Model class.  You
    can derive this object to create your own data repository.

e-table-simple.h, e-table-simple.c:

    A simple implementation of e-table-model that uses callback
    routines (you provide the callbacks).  For lazy people, like
    me. 

e-table-header.h, e-table-header.c:

    These implement the ETableHeader model.  They describe what
    columns are shown in the screen and in which order.

e-table-col.h, e-table-col.c:

    Describes a single column (the size, the string displayed, the
    rendering function for each row, comparission function for
    thsi field).

* The Views

e-table-item.c, e-table-item.h

    This is a canvas item that renders the contents of a
    ETableModel into the screen.

e-table-header-item.c, e-table-header-item.h

    This canvas item renders the ETableHeader headings.

* The Filters

e-table-sorted.c, e-table-sorted.h

    This is an ETableModel that can sort an existing ETableModel.