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

[Bryan O. <br...@bi...>]

Joe English wrote:


>>I'd like an option to specify whether a column is to be of fixed width
>>or not (assuming that columns can be interactively resized). This
>>wouldn't be a showstopper, but would lead to a more polished UI.
> 
> 
> I had planned to support a minimum size for columns (preferably
> calculated automatically from the column heading, user-specified
> as a last resort), but not a maximum size.  Dragging the border
> between two column headings will resize the column to the left,
> limited by the minimum size.  That's all.
> 

I won't lose any sleep over this.

> (I've looked at how other toolkits/widgets implement interactive
> resizing, and I'm quite convinced that you *really* don't want to
> do anything too clever here.  The ones that try to be clever
> are confusing to the user, get confused themselves, or both.
> If anyone knows of an exception, let me know...)
> 

Mozilla's newsreader has an example of fixed width columns. I have a
column with a image (to designate junk mail status), and if I drag the
right edge it's the same as if I dragged the left edge (ie: the column
to the left grows rather than growing the fixed-width column). It makes 
sense, but again, it's not strictly necessary.