[Sugar-devel] TreeView in Sugar

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 13:12, Walther Neuper <neuper at ist.tugraz.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> working on a "ReckonPrimer"-activity we face a design issue, which seems
> to be related to Sugars principles on GUI design, and we ask for your
> opinion and your help.
>
> # Sugar establishes the Journal as primary means to retrieve activities
> and related data, thus replacing filebrowsers for good reasons.
> # In the activity under construction we have a collection of 10 - 100
> units (called exercises) with the following properties:
>   * each unit needs a line/row for representation (with several
> parts/columns)
>   * the units can be grouped by the user (groups recursively nested)
>   * child rows of a group can be collapsed and expanded
>
> Now two questions:
> (1) The properties mentioned above suggest to represent a collection as
> a kind of a filebrowser --- would this be in line with Sugars general
> design principles ?
> (2) If yes for (1), do we have to implement a TreeView from scratch
> (p.214 ff in http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html) --- or is
> there already something similar available in Sugar, in some activity ?
>
> Any suggestion, opinion, help is highly appreciated !

Hi Walther,

do you have already any kind of UI mockup? A hand-drawn scanned page
would be more than enough for us to visualize what you are thinking
of.

Thanks,

Tomeu

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