Re: [flexcoders] How would I do something like this....

2006-04-23 Thread jeremy lu




hi Anatole,

I'm talking about datagrid too, never thought about extending tree and
add in those function. (especially in flex 2 the implementation changed
a lot).

I should add this to my original post:

if what the user want is providing a *view* into the hierarchy data,
then a simple item renderer inside first column of the datagrid should
do the trick, this should just take 2-3 days.

but the project I'm working on (which will be public in the end of May)
requires the capability to let user manipulate those nodes
(add/remove/rename/drag-drop/cut/copy/paste), which made it a lot
complex then I original thought. (acutally what you said is what I
thought it should be in the beginning - that weekend when I started
prototyping - but after digging into it I found that's totally another
story)


jeremy.

On 4/23/06, Anatole Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:









Jeremy,
 Actually,I was not 
suggesting to rewrite UI/datagrid - I was suggesting not to use tree 
-datagrid would work fine the way it is now. The changes to 
datagridwould be verylocalized:just sorting to take in 
consideration the hierarchy (essentially making sure you have custom sort 
function based on parent precedingcolumn sort), minor changes like 
making sure first column locking works, etc. In either case the code is based on 
datagrid and not on the tree, with opening/closing of the nodes based upon 
filtering of the data, add custom renderer to the first column to paint / 
outdent first label and integrate it with filter function.
 Quick and dirty approach allows 
you to do most of that code inline within the mxml/data definition itself doing 
the above code explicitly.

Thank you,
Anatole

PS. Obviously, disabling sorting or column 
reordering would further simplify the task.


- Original Message - 

  
From: 
  jeremy lu 

  To: 
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:14 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How would I do 
  something like this
  

well, just flip 
  thru my gridtree component (http://tinyurl.com/grcfs) developed two 
  months ago (which is still in a mess), it's around 2000 lines of code (after 
  refactoring it three times) and lot of algorithm behind to handle following 
  function:addNoderemoveNodecutNodecopyNodepasteNodeindent/outdent 
  codeI think the first methods Anatole mentioned will definitely be a 
  b***h to tackel with, for the nature of List-based component is a little bit 
  tricky then it looks (all the list items are dynamically generated and draw on 
  the screen, this will cause some trouble)I'm currently implementing 
  gridtree using item renderer for the first column, it's pretty much the same 
  work to extends gridbase and inject the tree grid code into it so the API 
  would be more compatible, by using this method I could easily feed a non-xml 
  structure (ie:resultset from java/php) to the component and let it draw the 
  hierarchy and set indent/outdent of each node.now I'm thinking maybe I 
  should draw those lines and plus sign instead of a simple arrowhead, so it's 
  more like VS2005 :-)FYI, the component took a whole weekend for 
  prototyping and concept-proofing, *but*, it took almost one and a half 
  month for debugging and refactoring to stablize the code and become really 
  usable in the on-going product/project.originally I want to 
  open-source the component but later on this become one of my assigned 
  day-job project (so I can fulltime developing it with the approval of my 
  employer), but anyway, I would love to answer any related 
  questions.jeremy.
  On 4/23/06, Anatole 
  Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Depends on your requirements:
For generic caseit is 3 step 
process:
1. Wait for beta 3 that supposely comes with 
the source code.
2. Study the code for data grid header, 
treeview, datagrid, etc
3. Write your own code for the 
controlinherited on the topof BaseGrid, with automatic wrapper 
for the first column - 1500-2000 lines in total to support generic 
case

For quick and dirty :
Create first column as cell renderer. I believe 
I posted code in this group for Flex 1.5 tree cell renderer that allowed to 
add nodes lines to the regular tree - you just paint it within item - still 
about 200 lines of code for core functionality, another 100 lines for 
cascade retrieve/grouped sort on the header clicks, 2-3 days of work 
altogether

Have not seen anything in the public domain, 
just few developed for hire in consulting gigs.

HTH,

Anatole





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Re: [flexcoders] How would I do something like this....

2006-04-23 Thread Anatole Tartakovsky





Jeremi, 
 Agreed. Manipulation part 
(addNode, eventsetc) threw me off as it seemed that you wanted 
Tree API and DataGrid-like cell renderer. Very nice control.
Regards,
Anatole


  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  jeremy lu 

  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:41 
AM
  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How would I do 
  something like this
  hi 
  Anatole,I'm talking about datagrid too, never thought about extending 
  tree and add in those function. (especially in flex 2 the implementation 
  changed a lot).I should add this to my original post:if what 
  the user want is providing a *view* into the hierarchy data, then a simple 
  item renderer inside first column of the datagrid should do the trick, this 
  should just take 2-3 days.but the project I'm working on (which will 
  be public in the end of May) requires the capability to let user manipulate 
  those nodes (add/remove/rename/drag-drop/cut/copy/paste), which made it a lot 
  complex then I original thought. (acutally what you said is what I thought it 
  should be in the beginning - that weekend when I started prototyping - but 
  after digging into it I found that's totally another 
  story)jeremy.
  On 4/23/06, Anatole 
  Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Jeremy,
 Actually,I was not 
suggesting to rewrite UI/datagrid - I was suggesting not to use tree 
-datagrid would work fine the way it is now. The changes to 
datagridwould be very"localized":just sorting to take in 
consideration the hierarchy (essentially making sure you have custom sort 
function based on parent precedingcolumn sort), minor changes 
like making sure first column locking works, etc. In either case the code is 
based on datagrid and not on the tree, with opening/closing of the nodes 
based upon filtering of the data, add custom renderer to the first column to 
paint / outdent first label and integrate it with filter 
function.
 Quick and dirty approach 
allows you to do most of that code inline within the mxml/data definition 
itself doing the above code explicitly.

Thank you,
Anatole

PS. Obviously, disabling sorting or column 
reordering would further simplify the task.


- Original Message - 


From: 
jeremy lu 
To: 
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 

Sent: 
Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:14 PM
Subject: 
Re: [flexcoders] How would I do something like this
well, just flip 
thru my gridtree component (http://tinyurl.com/grcfs) 
developed two months ago (which is still in a mess), it's around 2000 lines 
of code (after refactoring it three times) and lot of algorithm behind to 
handle following 
function:addNoderemoveNodecutNodecopyNodepasteNodeindent/outdent 
codeI think the first methods Anatole mentioned will definitely be a 
b***h to tackel with, for the nature of List-based component is a little bit 
tricky then it looks (all the list items are dynamically generated and draw 
on the screen, this will cause some trouble)I'm currently 
implementing gridtree using item renderer for the first column, it's pretty 
much the same work to extends gridbase and "inject" the tree grid code into 
it so the API would be more compatible, by using this method I could easily 
feed a non-xml structure (ie:resultset from java/php) to the component and 
let it draw the hierarchy and set indent/outdent of each node.now 
I'm thinking maybe I should draw those lines and plus sign instead of a 
simple arrowhead, so it's more like VS2005 :-)FYI, the 
component took a whole weekend for prototyping and concept-proofing, 
*but*, it took almost one and a half month for debugging and refactoring to 
stablize the code and become really usable in the on-going 
product/project.originally I want to open-source the component but 
later on this become one of my assigned day-job project (so I can 
fulltime developing it with the approval of my employer), but anyway, I 
would love to answer any related questions.jeremy.
On 4/23/06, Anatole 
Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 

  
  Depends on your requirements:
  For generic caseit is 3 step 
  process:
  1. Wait for beta 3 that supposely comes with 
  the source code.
  2. Study the code for data grid header, 
  treeview, datagrid, etc
  3. Write your own code for the 
  controlinherited on the topof BaseGrid, with automatic wrapper 
  for the first column - 1500-2000 lines in total to support generic 
  case
  
  For quick and dirty :
  Create first column as cell renderer. I 
  believe I posted code in this group for Flex 1.5 tree cell renderer that 
  allowed to add nodes lines to the regular tree - you just paint it within 
  item - still about 200 li

[flexcoders] How would I do something like this....

2006-04-22 Thread Doug Hughes












Hello all,



I need to create a UI element that looks more or less like the
screenshot at this link. http://odetocode.com/aimages/debugging/fig8.jpg.
The screenshot is of the MS Visual Studio 2005 watch window. The
component seems to be a combination of a tree control and a list control.
The left-most column shows a tree of element names that can be expanded. Theres
either nothing, a plus or a minus to the left of the name. If you click
the plus nested items are displayed. The minus hides nested items. The
tree really has multiple columns. For each element shown in the tree there are
more columns. Thats what Im trying to accomplish. 



Any suggestions on how I might accomplish this?



Doug









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Re: [flexcoders] How would I do something like this....

2006-04-22 Thread JesterXL





You want a tree grid. One approach might be 
to create a Tree inside of a DataGrid itemRenderer that only supports 1 node; or 
you could support multiple and turn variableRowHeight on (forget the property 
name in 2).

Or, have your itemRenderer understand XML, but only 
render1 item, and obey the indentation rules.

- Original Message - 
From: Doug Hughes 
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:50 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] How would I do something like 
this



Hello 
all,

I need to create a UI element that 
looks more or less like the screenshot at this link. http://odetocode.com/aimages/debugging/fig8.jpg. 
The screenshot is of the MS Visual Studio 2005 watch window. The 
component seems to be a combination of a tree control and a list control. 
The left-most column shows a tree of element names that can be expanded. There’s 
either nothing, a plus or a minus to the left of the name. If you click 
the plus nested items are displayed. The minus hides nested items. The 
tree really has multiple columns. For each element shown in the tree there are 
more columns. That’s what I’m trying to accomplish. 


Any suggestions on how I might 
accomplish this?

Doug





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Re: [flexcoders] How would I do something like this....

2006-04-22 Thread Anatole Tartakovsky





Depends on your requirements:
For generic caseit is 3 step 
process:
1. Wait for beta 3 that supposely comes with the 
source code.
2. Study the code for data grid header, treeview, 
datagrid, etc
3. Write your own code for the 
controlinherited on the topof BaseGrid, with automatic wrapper for 
the first column - 1500-2000 lines in total to support generic case

For quick and dirty :
Create first column as cell renderer. I believe I 
posted code in this group for Flex 1.5 tree cell renderer that allowed to add 
nodes lines to the regular tree - you just paint it within item - still about 
200 lines of code for core functionality, another 100 lines for cascade 
retrieve/grouped sort on the header clicks, 2-3 days of work 
altogether

Have not seen anything in the public domain, just 
few developed "for hire" in consulting gigs.

HTH,
Anatole

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Doug Hughes 
  
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:50 
  PM
  Subject: [flexcoders] How would I do 
  something like this
  
  
  
  Hello 
  all,
  
  I need to create a UI element that 
  looks more or less like the screenshot at this link. http://odetocode.com/aimages/debugging/fig8.jpg. 
  The screenshot is of the MS Visual Studio 2005 watch window. The 
  component seems to be a combination of a tree control and a list 
  control. The left-most column shows a tree of element names that can be 
  expanded. There’s either nothing, a plus or a minus to the left of the 
  name. If you click the plus nested items are displayed. The minus hides 
  nested items. The tree really has multiple columns. For each element 
  shown in the tree there are more columns. That’s what I’m trying to 
  accomplish. 
  
  Any suggestions on how I might 
  accomplish this?
  
  Doug





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Re: [flexcoders] How would I do something like this....

2006-04-22 Thread jeremy lu




well, just flip thru my gridtree component (http://tinyurl.com/grcfs)
developed two months ago (which is still in a mess), it's around 2000
lines of code (after refactoring it three times) and lot of algorithm
behind to handle following function:

addNode
removeNode
cutNode
copyNode
pasteNode
indent/outdent code

I think the first methods Anatole mentioned will definitely be a b***h
to tackel with, for the nature of List-based component is a little bit
tricky then it looks (all the list items are dynamically generated and
draw on the screen, this will cause some trouble)

I'm currently implementing gridtree using item renderer for the first
column, it's pretty much the same work to extends gridbase and inject
the tree grid code into it so the API would be more compatible, by
using this method I could easily feed a non-xml structure (ie:resultset
from java/php) to the component and let it draw the hierarchy and set
indent/outdent of each node.

now I'm thinking maybe I should draw those lines and plus sign instead of a simple arrowhead, so it's more like VS2005 :-)

FYI, the component took a whole weekend for prototyping and
concept-proofing, *but*, it took almost one and a half month for
debugging and refactoring to stablize the code and become really usable
in the on-going product/project.

originally I want to open-source the component but later on this become
one of my assigned day-job project (so I can fulltime developing
it with the approval of my employer), but anyway, I would love to
answer any related questions.

jeremy.

On 4/23/06, Anatole Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:









Depends on your requirements:
For generic caseit is 3 step 
process:
1. Wait for beta 3 that supposely comes with the 
source code.
2. Study the code for data grid header, treeview, 
datagrid, etc
3. Write your own code for the 
controlinherited on the topof BaseGrid, with automatic wrapper for 
the first column - 1500-2000 lines in total to support generic case

For quick and dirty :
Create first column as cell renderer. I believe I 
posted code in this group for Flex 1.5 tree cell renderer that allowed to add 
nodes lines to the regular tree - you just paint it within item - still about 
200 lines of code for core functionality, another 100 lines for cascade 
retrieve/grouped sort on the header clicks, 2-3 days of work 
altogether

Have not seen anything in the public domain, just 
few developed for hire in consulting gigs.

HTH,
Anatole






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Re: [flexcoders] How would I do something like this....

2006-04-22 Thread Anatole Tartakovsky





Jeremy,
 Actually,I was not 
suggesting to rewrite UI/datagrid - I was suggesting not to use tree 
-datagrid would work fine the way it is now. The changes to 
datagridwould be very"localized":just sorting to take in 
consideration the hierarchy (essentially making sure you have custom sort 
function based on parent precedingcolumn sort), minor changes like 
making sure first column locking works, etc. In either case the code is based on 
datagrid and not on the tree, with opening/closing of the nodes based upon 
filtering of the data, add custom renderer to the first column to paint / 
outdent first label and integrate it with filter function.
 Quick and dirty approach allows 
you to do most of that code inline within the mxml/data definition itself doing 
the above code explicitly.

Thank you,
Anatole

PS. Obviously, disabling sorting or column 
reordering would further simplify the task.


- Original Message - 

  From: 
  jeremy lu 

  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:14 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How would I do 
  something like this
  well, just flip 
  thru my gridtree component (http://tinyurl.com/grcfs) developed two 
  months ago (which is still in a mess), it's around 2000 lines of code (after 
  refactoring it three times) and lot of algorithm behind to handle following 
  function:addNoderemoveNodecutNodecopyNodepasteNodeindent/outdent 
  codeI think the first methods Anatole mentioned will definitely be a 
  b***h to tackel with, for the nature of List-based component is a little bit 
  tricky then it looks (all the list items are dynamically generated and draw on 
  the screen, this will cause some trouble)I'm currently implementing 
  gridtree using item renderer for the first column, it's pretty much the same 
  work to extends gridbase and "inject" the tree grid code into it so the API 
  would be more compatible, by using this method I could easily feed a non-xml 
  structure (ie:resultset from java/php) to the component and let it draw the 
  hierarchy and set indent/outdent of each node.now I'm thinking maybe I 
  should draw those lines and plus sign instead of a simple arrowhead, so it's 
  more like VS2005 :-)FYI, the component took a whole weekend for 
  prototyping and concept-proofing, *but*, it took almost one and a half 
  month for debugging and refactoring to stablize the code and become really 
  usable in the on-going product/project.originally I want to 
  open-source the component but later on this become one of my assigned 
  day-job project (so I can fulltime developing it with the approval of my 
  employer), but anyway, I would love to answer any related 
  questions.jeremy.
  On 4/23/06, Anatole 
  Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Depends on your requirements:
For generic caseit is 3 step 
process:
1. Wait for beta 3 that supposely comes with 
the source code.
2. Study the code for data grid header, 
treeview, datagrid, etc
3. Write your own code for the 
controlinherited on the topof BaseGrid, with automatic wrapper 
for the first column - 1500-2000 lines in total to support generic 
case

For quick and dirty :
Create first column as cell renderer. I believe 
I posted code in this group for Flex 1.5 tree cell renderer that allowed to 
add nodes lines to the regular tree - you just paint it within item - still 
about 200 lines of code for core functionality, another 100 lines for 
cascade retrieve/grouped sort on the header clicks, 2-3 days of work 
altogether

Have not seen anything in the public domain, 
just few developed "for hire" in consulting gigs.

HTH,

Anatole





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