Best way to display dynamic tabular data?

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Best way to display dynamic tabular data?

newguy

I need to display dynamic data in rows and columns like attached image.
What is the best way to do that?

cybereality

I don't think Godot supports tables. You'll probably have to inherit from Control (of a child class of Control) and design your own Node type.

newguy

cybereality I am currently trying with

ScrollContainer
  VBoxContainer
     Row 1(HBoxContainer)
       Label1
       Label2
     Row 2(HBoxContainer)
       Label1
       Label2

The problem is I have to manually set the margin of row 1, row 2 to have them properly aligned and spacing and I will need to add the row data in code later.
And when the screen resolution change the margins will not be correct anymore?

cybereality

Yes, you can do it that way, provided you set the min/max size all the same. But it probably won't scale correctly without manual work (for example, if you switch resolutions or drag a border). However, that would be an option if you don't want to create your own class.

DaveTheCoder

What about GridContainer?
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_gridcontainer.html

newguy

DaveTheCoder Yes it works well. Thanks!

cybereality

Oh yeah, I forgot about GridContainer. I thought I remember there was some limitation, but it's worth looking at.