81991 - programmatic selection in help toc should open twisties and select nested items

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

In the Help viewer and in Mail, there are many places where we need to select
items that are nested one or two deep in a tree. Currently, trees do not open to
expose their children when those children are selected programmatically, but
this ought to be a part of the implicit functionality of the tree widgets, and
we need it desperately to display context-sensitive help in the Help viewer.

Comment 1

[David Hyatt]

I'm focused on layout now, and don't have time to work on this.  Even if I did, 
I'd prioritize outliner over the deprecated tree widget.  If you want this 
fixed, reassign.

Comment 2

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

reassigning to self, changing component, and updating summary: <tree> won't be
fixed, we will do the opening and selection stuff in JS, maybe in some general
place like tasksOverlay.js and maybe in our own little Help viewer world.

Need help. Bhuvan is helping. See doc in following attachment for summation of
current problems. 

Comment 3

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Attachment: describes problems I am having in the help toc

Comment 4

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Leaving this open for now, since I don't have anything checked in, but we have 
figured out a workaround, in which the table of contents will be described in 
plain ol' xul rather than rdf, so that the whole content model can be exposed to 
us. 

Comment 5

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Selection won't work properly until the table of contents is converted to XUL. 
Marking dependency on 79212 where the xulification of the toc is being tracked. 
I am working on this.

Comment 6

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Marking INVALID. This problem is no longer really relevant to the help window,
where we'll be using other means to select in the TOC, index, and other
rdf-based data in the left pane.

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

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