RE: [Tile-dev] Tree widget API

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I'd love to see this widget integrated.  On the other hand, 
> we have started playing with the bwidgets tree widget and 
> seems to have a pretty nice API. Bryan, you want to review 
> your likes/dislikes of each of these?  You've 
> used them more than anyone I know.

[adding in Tim Baker, primary treectrl author - we are
discussing the addition of a tree widget that would be tracked
for the core]

I'd like to see what Bryan has to say, but the BWidgets tree
widget is a 1 week hack compared to the features of the treectrl
widget.  When you go to
    http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net/
note that in all the picture, both the left *and* right panes
are treectrl widgets.  We use it in the VFS Explorer, which you
can see here:
    http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Tcl_Dev_Kit/TclVFSE.html
Again, left and right are treectrl widgets - it is both a tree
and a multicolumn listbox.  It has element styles and views, etc.

It's only fault is the complexity of the API.  Is this
unavoidable due to the complexity of the widget, or is this
something that post-dev experience and more use with the widget
can help to rationalize?

Jeff