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From: Syd Polk <spolk@apple.com>
To: Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com>
Cc: Insight Maling List <insight@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Variable windows: BLT or ???
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73C49FF5-9CA4-11D5-B401-0050E4E02A78@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0108281726180.2633-100000@makita.cygnus.com>

On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, at 05:31 PM, Keith Seitz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ok, so here we are. At long last, we are ready to whack tix from our
> repository. This is the moment for which I've been waiting for a long,
> long time. I'm sure Jim, Fernando, and Martin are equally happy to see 
> us
> come this far along.
>
> Any way, in order to completely remove tix from our repository, we need 
> to
> have a solution for the variable windows. This is (and has been) the
> biggest stumbling block for us whacking tix. We need some sort of
> hierachial tree widget.
>
> I see three options:
>
> 1) Pull in and update the "tree" widget that Source Navigator uses

This is pretty horrid code; I don't think it is a really viable solution.

> 2) Pull in BLT and use its hiertree widget.

This would save a lot of time, although there is porting pain.

> 3) Look for another alternative (including writing our own)
>

This is the last resort. It takes a long time to do this.

I recommend #2.

> Having been through the SN tree widget, my inclination is to go with #2
> right now, even though it will take some non-trivial effort (for me) to
> upgrade BLT to build on cygwin.
>
> Anyone have any comments on BLT, SN's tree widget, other alternatives?
> Keith
>
>
Syd Polk
QA and Integration Manager, Mac OSX Development Tools
+1 408 974-0577

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-29 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-28 17:32 Keith Seitz
2001-08-29 10:37 ` Syd Polk [this message]
     [not found] <999189447.3240.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2001-08-30 11:56 ` Jim Ingham
     [not found] <3B952662.3B869D36@redhat.com>
2001-09-04 12:54 ` Ian Roxborough
2001-09-05  8:02   ` Keith Seitz

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