Hello Web Johny,
I have started using this wonderful read utility / functionality that you have provided. But i have faced some challenges with the same..
1 - There is no way you could have allowed a user to set his own patterned view columns.
2 - There is now callback exclusively for column in the view as there are in others.
3 - There aint feature to unset view.. all what is being used is all fields set in edit mode. Now technically speaking i may not give everything in edit but may have many other things to display in view. Plus, i may have a need of setting my own callback for formatting the output of the view.
4 - The image / picture for file upload is not set for as a link to view / click to download or stuff like that. A better option could have been a thumbnail view and click to enlarge the same using fancybox.
All such issues lead me to re-code the GC base library. I am sharing the code for the same .. that you can surely utilize it for the betterment / completeness of the library - Or anyone by the time a newer version is released, may use it.
I just did it with the intention to use it with my code.. this 1 might not be perfect one. Any improvements are surely welcomed.
Happy GCing :)