Re: [Dynapi-Help] help with fasttreenode

Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:53:03 -0700

Hi,
 
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<Does anyone know how to do the following?
<1. Not have fasttreenode collapse an already existing expanded tree whenver another one gets expanded? Currently, if I expand one, then expand another, <the previously expanded gets collapsed... I'd like to change that behavior.
<2. Allow for multiple selects? I want to be able to click on multiple leaf nodes and keep the color shading in order to indicate multiple selects.
Yes, your first question should be possible - there's a function in there towards the end of the code somewhere that collapses the expanded nodes - simply commenting those bits out should help.
No, I don't think multiple select would be easily added - would probably requere a different type of widget, more like the list widget.
 
<Also, this list seems to not have much traffic. How can I find out the email for the authors so I can ask them directly?

There are a few reasons the traffic dropped here:
 
1) The list was changed, so that when a windows user clicks reply, the mail only replies to the original poster, not to the list.
This means that many questions seem to go unanswered, while in fact only the original poster sees the replies.
I initially thought this was a change made by sourceforge, but on another sourceforge project I work on, it was easy to set the mailinglist software to 'reply to list'.
 
2) The original Dynapi2 came to be more or less stable around v2.5, all that was needed were some bugfixes, and some updating as new browsers were released.
At this point Dan released a complete re-write of the code, as version 2.9.
Many of the existing developers simply couldn't invest the time to re-learn the whole code-base, or didn't agree with some of the changes, so stopped contributing.
Also, it became hard to justify updating the v2.5 branch, as these bugfixes didn't trickle down to version 2.9, meaning we were confronted with exactly the same bugs all over again.
 
3) People can contribute X amount of their time free to opensource projects.
As the IT economy declined, earning a living became an important factor for many of us.
 
4) As Accessibility and coding to w3c standards become more important issues, DHTML has lost some of its relevance in commercial sites (IMHO).
 
Lastly I apologise to those that haven't received a reply from me when sending me email - I simply haven't had time to update my site with new contributions people have sent.
I hope I'll get round to doing it still though.
Also, I can't add any bug-fixes to the DynAPI code without testing the effect these changes might have on various browsers and platforms - which is why I don't just add bugfixes to the CVS code.
These are best submitted to the patch section of our sourceforge page, so that they don't get lost, and can be looked at when someone updates the code.
 
Cheers,
Richard.
 
 
 
 

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