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

[Csaba N. <csa...@t-...>]

Jeff Hobbs schrieb:
> Csaba Nemethi wrote:
> 
>> While I generally agree with your criticism concerning the current 
>> development state of the treeview widget, I would have a quite serious 
>> problem if treeview wouldn't be integrated into the core.  The reason is 
>> that in the tile-enabled version of Tablelist I make use of some 
>> treeview-related elements, like Treeheading.border and Treeheading.cell.
> 
> While this is an interesting aspect, it is not strictly in favor of the
> treeview.  It is perhaps possible to have the elements without the widget.
> 

Well, AFAIK, these elements are implemented in the file treeview.c, 
which is pretty large (containing the whole treeview stuff).  It is 
surely possible to provide these elements by keeping only the relevant 
parts of this file.  Either way, *I really need these elements, or else 
Tablelist_tile will die*, which I (and many others) would greatly regret.

>> Also, your intention (decision?) to exclude treeview from the core 
>> doesn't take into account that there are quite a few people who already 
>> use treeview (in spite of its relatively early development state). 
>> After all, this wouldn't be the first widget in the core whose early 
>> versions are not yet quite satisfactory.
> 
> 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.  On the contrary, I have received only more
> *negative* indicators.  I am still open either way, but I have been pushed
> farther against in the last few days without anybody really advocating for on
> core widget value.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 

By searching for "treeview* on the Wiki, you can find about half a dozen 
applications making use of treeview.  But there are probably much more 
scripts based on this widget, and I am sure that their authors would be 
rather unhappy learning that these scripts will no longer work with Tk 
8.5.  Most of these people are probably no subscribers of this list, 
therefore I'm not sure this discussion is the right way to find out 
whether treeview should be merged into the core or not.  The c.l.t. 
newsgroup would probably be more adequate for this purpose.

Csaba (wanting to keep Tablelist_tile alive)

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