Re: [Tile-dev] Tree API draft round 2

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Damon Courtney wrote:

>     Is this really a tree view or a multi-column view?

It should be able to handle both.

> So far, I'm seeing more to do with multi-column features and 
> not so much for a tree.

Well, there's parent, children, next, prev, move, insert, and the 
fact that items are arranged hierarchically...

> Some features in BWidget's tree that I'd definitely want to see 
> in this one:
> 
> -showlines
> -deltax
> -deltay
> -crossopenimage
> -crosscloseimage
> 
>     I realize these are mostly just features to affect the display of 
> the tree, but I think they're pretty important for making a tree do lots 
> of different duties.

All of these (and more) are or will be supported, but 
like Bryan said in his followup most of them are in the
style system and not specified as widget options.

> Also, the ability to display an image next to each 
> item is crucial and not something I see in the current draft.

Items have an '-image' option.


--Joe English

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