[Adobe-source-devel] List/Tree View Control for ASL

[Foster T. B. <fbr...@ad...>]

Hey all,

This is something of a 'call for input' into the project I'd like to focus
on next: A list/tree view/controller for ASL. This will most likely leverag=
e
the Data Browser (Carbon) and TreeView (Win32) control implementations for
the back end.

The big difference between this widget and others is that a list/tree view
is a representation of a sequence of nodes. My current thought is to have
the data structure behind the widget be an adobe::forest. This shores up th=
e
functionality available to the widget, but what I'd like to focus on for
feedback is the means by which information is communicated between the
widget and the client. What would such a communication system look like? Fo=
r
instance, what would be a good general solution that would provide the
ability to notify the user of what sequence of nodes are currently visible
in the widget view?

I have begun a brainstorming page on the opensource.adobe.com wiki:

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/List/Tree_Widget

Any contributions or thoughts you might have into the topic would be
beneficial.

(My long term plan is to leverage the widget in the creation of "Expresso2"=
,
a visual editor for our layout/property model system.)

Blessings,
Foster


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