I love what I've seen from Qooxdoo so far, but the widget availability confuses the hell out of me. There's three different tree implementations, two different list implementations (three if you count the deprecated one), and as if that where not enough, they all seem to support various different forms of databinding.
While I have some idea now what each of them does, I'm curious to know what the way forward is (I am assuming that there is the intention to consolidate those, because right now, the whole thing is highly inaccessible and unsatisfying). qx.ui.form.List and qx.ui.tree.Tree uses the controller approach to databinding. qx.ui.list.List and qx.ui.tree.VirtualTree work directly with a model and delegate. Why the different approaches? Along with the sparse documentation, I cannot emphasise enough how hard I found it as a beginner to grasp what is going on with these widgets and databinding. Wouldn't it be preferrable to make all widgets virtual, and agree upon a single way to do the databinding? Reading the mailing list I'm picking up signs that maybe this is the intention, but it's not really clear what the direction is here. On a related note, I keep stumbling over there being no widget that supports a) databinding and b) sortable columns. e.g. a table predating all the cool stuff. Again, there are some references to a new table being planned, but that's not going to happen anytime soon, is that correct? -- View this message in context: http://qooxdoo.678.n2.nabble.com/Widget-organization-kind-of-a-mess-aka-Roadmap-tp7527009.html Sent from the qooxdoo mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
