[Laszlo-dev] Updating Opttree

[Raju Bitter]

Antun,

that's a great idea! I can imagine that many people would be glad to  
have a better tree component. You might want to talk to Max, as he's  
planning the new component set with Bret.

Cheers,
Raju

On 15.04.2009, at 01:21, Antun Karlovac wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The opttree that's currently distributed in the incubator directory  
> is fairly limited. A while ago, I did some significant refactoring  
> to make opttree more extensible. The result was one that could do  
> all these things:
>
> http://www.laszlocode.com/application.php?projectid=41
> http://www.laszlocode.com/application.php?projectid=40
> http://www.laszlocode.com/application.php?projectid=39
> http://www.laszlocode.com/application.php?projectid=37
>
> It even has the option of connector lines, although they rely on the  
> drawing API.
>
> Note that it's only really present on laszlocode.com. It's not  
> checked-in. As a result, it hasn't been updated to work on 4.2.
>
> How do people feel about updating the opttree that's in OpenLaszlo  
> with this one? I don't mind doing the work of migrating the code to  
> 4.2 - provided that it gets checked-in, where it can be kept up-to- 
> date and benefit the whole community.
>
> Keep in mind that this would involve an API change to opttree.  
> Opttree is in the incubator, so I think we're allowed to do that.
>
> Take care,
>
> Antun