On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 6:48:32 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:40 AM Thomas Passin <[email protected] 
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>> Can you imagine trying to work with thousands or tens of thousands of 
>> nodes in the outline pane?  
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> It could be done easily, if that is what you wanted.
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Well, yes, technically, but it's not at all easy for a user to work with an 
outline or select list with too many items. Too hard to read, too much 
scrolling! (Yes, I know that good organization and searching helps a lot - 
look at LeoRef.leo, for example).

One way I dealt with this in the past, in a browser application, was to 
have the list be able to fold or unfold locally, at each node.  To unfold a 
folded tree, you press the control key and drag the mouse over the node 
(and probably adjacent nodes).  Dragging with the shift key folds them up 
again.  This is not a standard UI method, but it was pretty effective.

Hmm, do you know if QT5 would support this?

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