I want to use indentation of the MessageElement to show message threading.
Looking at the source for message element it looks as though I'll have to fork
it and modify MessageElement, MessageCell and MessageSummaryView just to
customise the drawing a little. I was hoping to be able to just inherit
MessageElement and tweak it so that I can benefit from any improvements to
MessageElement in future releases without having to merge them.
Would it be a nice idea (i.e. would a push request be accepted) to modify
MessageElement and MessageCell to have the type of MessageSummaryView (i.e. the
drawing behavior) optionally passed into MessageElement as a factory method
delegate. This would allow easy customisation by implementing a
AbstractBaseMessageSummaryView inheritor on a custom class and passing that
in. The default constructor could just make the MessageElement use the default
MessageSummaryView so existing code would still work.
public delegate AbstractBaseMessageSummaryView
MessageSummaryViewFactoryMethod();
MessageElement(MessageSummaryViewFactoryMethod viewFactory)
{
//pass view factory into the MessageCell and call it as needed
Is there an better way to do this? Is there a better way to display threading
than indentation?
Regards,
Felix
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