Advice on what is best to use when displaying lots of numerical data

[Drew]

Thanks Dan - that's a fair call. I suppose what I'm interested in hearing is about any of these dozen different techniques - especially those that don't use any of the things I've mentioned in the OP. Currently I'm learning towards using a QTableView or QTreeView - just want to beware of any potential gotcha's.

If anyone's used had experience displaying large datasets and had success/problems - I'd be interested to hear their learnings (ie would they recommend it or if they were going to do it again, would they do it differently).

Cheers

[Edit] - Thanks also Chris - I was posted this and then saw your response

[SixDegrees]

Putting thousands of user interface widgets on display is almost certainly not going to perform well, particularly if many of them are receiving updates rapidly. You may be better off simply painting a grid yourself. If the checkboxes are for display only (not interactive) this would be fast and trivial - just reuse a check image over and over, along with a blank or unchecked image. If you need interactivity, that would take a little more work - but not very much, as it's just a matter of capturing mouse clicks and resolving them to a given rectangular area. This will almost certainly give you the best performance.

But as others have said, it's really impossible to provide any guidance without more specific requirements.

[DanH]

Thousands of data points are better displayed as some sort of graph. I've seen many implementations where details about any particular data point are displayed in a pop-up when you hover the cursor over a point in the graph, eg, if you need to provide access to the detailed data.

It would also help to know whether you're talking phone (I hope not) or desktop.