Re: [Tile-dev] a tale of 2 trees

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

Kevin Walzer wrote:
> > Please identify these people.  That is what I had hoped this 
> > discussion would do - flush out users of treeview to advocate that 
> > they are perfectly happy using it for X, Y and Z.  O
> 
> For what it's worth: I currently ship three shareware 
> applications that make use of tablelist_tile. I have four 
> more applications under development, and at least three of 
> them will make use of tablelist_tile. I realize it's not a 
> popularity contest, but tablelist_tile (and by extension 
> treeview) is at the foundation of my software development 
> business. Tktreectrl is simply too complex for my needs: 
> tablelist_tile, by contrast, is perfect.

As noted before, this is really a condemnation of treeview coupled with the
point that tree elements need to be defined in Ttk.  What you are really
saying is that ttk::tablelist is what you want in the core.

> Reverting to the standard tablelist widget would, most 
> likely, impact the sales of my software, because Mac users 

No, it would not.  You would just still require tile in 8.5 (and it does
work).

Jeff