RE: [Tile-dev] Tree widget API

[Andreas K. <and...@Ac...>]

> > AFAIU tktreectrl is also based on a combination of hierarchy and
> > multi-column.
> >
> > See http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > However while tktreectrl is a very nice tree widget, very flexible, its
API
> > is also quite complicated. A tree as powerful as tktreectrl with a more
> > rational or understandable API would be my wish.
>
> If I recall correctly, tktreectrl had a pretty complicated interface
> to allow for specifying the elements, options and things of each
> individual column or row.

Yep. I did work with it, and the best I could do was to use the demos and
modify them for what I wanted. Slightly. Part of the problem is that the
docs do not explain the relations between all the pieces very well either.

> Since Tile already has a very good system
> for defining elements of widgets and the like, I'd like to see
> tktreectrl translated into using the system we already have in place.

If that is possible, we should go for that, IMHO.

> The power of the widget is unrivaled in what it does as far as I know.
> It just needs a lot of work to make it more... Tcl'ish.


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