405913 - wanted: richlisttree

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, enhancement)

Description

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wanted:  richlisttree

for bug #399664, I've made some scary hacks to make the richlistbox act like a special case rich tree.

I know that myk has done some similar things, see bug #377784.

see also bug #367843 (wanted multi column for richlistbox).  perhaps this bug is a dup?

What I'm looking for is:

1)  grid based layout, so I don't have to set the width of the "columns", I could use flex.

2)  support "rows" attribute on richlistbox (like we do on listbox), bug #401939

Comment 1

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Attachment: screen shot of what myk is doing

Comment 2

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Attachment: screen shot of what I'm doing

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

What's bug 399281 about then? Is that really about richlisttree but just incorrectly summarized?

Comment 4

[Neil Deakin]

There's already an old bug on this somewhere. The simplest approach to implementing this isn't too difficult, which I currently plan on doing for just after Firefox 3.

Comment 5

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neil, can you elaborate on how you'd do this?  

I'm wondering if, even before we have a generic xul:richlisttree, I could use your approach to improve rich autocomplete.

Comment 6

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> What's bug 399281 about then? Is that really about richlisttree but just
> incorrectly summarized?

bug #399281 is about moving to a richlistbox.

this is about having a richlisttree, and using that (instead of richlistbox + hackery.)

Comment 7

[Neil Deakin]

(In reply to comment #5)
> neil, can you elaborate on how you'd do this?  

The simple approach is to just lay out and render the content in a <treecell> at the right place.