On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:11:16 -0700 (PDT) "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 1:44 pm, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Whenever we start having fun, clones come along and spoil it. > > True I've noticed that too :-) I wonder if looking at a different approach, like the backlinks.py, would make other things more doable. Before I'm burned at the stake (this is only pretend, after all), I know clones bring enormous benefit. But I don't use them. For example, the classic case of collecting nodes needing work in one place using clones. Using backlinks's approach you can do it two ways, either one node ("Active problems") with links to each of the things you're working on (which are displayed in the log panel currently, but could possibly be integrated into the tree), or, if you want a place to make problem specific notes / track progress / etc., have a list of regular child nodes under the "Active problems" node, each with one link to the target node. I prefer this to clones because I'm often collecting active problems from trees which represent projects, not software. Consequently the trees are often quite deep (compared to software), and using clones makes all the branches below the clone appear in the "Active problems" node list, where I don't want them. Fine as long as the node's collapsed, but when it's expanded you don't see the list, nor do you see the context of the tree surrounding the cloned node. Whereas the backlink style link just jumps you to the node in question in it's original context. I'm sure this is heresy, but I've felt "Whenever we start having fun, clones come along and spoil it" too. I would like to be able to have dynamic nodes in leo, such that leo doesn't store the nodes, but calls back to the application using leo to get child lists etc. This is another game I suspect clones would spoil :-) Cheers -Terry (just pretending) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
