Enhanced data display widget

[sebme]

We often have the need to display various data to our operators in our apps. At present there seem to be the following options to accomplish this:

Option	Problem
Misuse an interactive table widget without defining a linked placholder – disable selection capability – and arrange the columns needed	probably not their intended use; seems to be quite resource intensive for simple display of data
Piece together a text field and a variable / table record display widget for each field of interest; replicate this over and over wherever needed	Terribly time consuming to build and to maintain
Use the variable display / table record display widget	max 3 field layout; limited display options
Custom widget	Fixed data structure; difficult to maintain

This is the sort of output we would are looking for:

Header, field value, arranged next to each other (or horizintally or vertically), with an option to determine the alignment of the text and a way to say which column should auto-expand to fill up space.

Current option chosen: A mix of “custom widget” and “misused interactive table widget”.

[thorsten.langner]

I have the same issue. There is no great way to display an object.
I want do define the direction and based on that fix the column or row count
I also want to change the column width individually
Additionally I would like to define a gap size.
(similar to html grid)

This would allow for all of these patterns/layouts (and more):

[pete]

@sebme @thorsten.langner thanks for the suggestions and the extra details. This is an area of the product that we are starting to look at more and this will be helpful!