Hi,
I am trying to use FocusModel in a custom property sheet component - it
is probably a good idea to reuse as much API as possible and make
components work similar to each other. However, the focus model makes
this more difficult than it should be:
1. Why is it index-based? With methods like focusNext and focusPrevious
it should not really require an ordered, index-based list. The TreeView
focus model shows how this requires non-trivial extra effort if the data
model is not similar to a plain list.
2. Why is setFocusedItem package private and final? With this I cannot
even provide a new method "focus(item)" because I cannot call
setFocusedItem internally. My users would have to translate their item
into an index to be able to focus it. The TableViewFocusModel seems to
have the same problem - but it is in the same package and can simply
cheat on package private methods!
To make this still work I'd have to provide index-based access to a
tree-like data model. And to allow operations like focus(item) I'd have
to translate the item to an index to call focus(index) instead -
although I don't even need that index, and providing it is extra effort.
Does it make sense to lift some of these restrictions?
- no index-based requirement
- less final/package-private methods
Similar things can be said about the selection model...
Werner
