[openbeos] Re: Expander's behaviour (was: unrar)

"Gregor B. Rosenauer" <rosenauer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> What about using the ColumnListView which is already part of 
> OpenTracker 
> (or the newer one from Vision or the extended version from me - @Axel 
> don't ask;) instead of a simple TextView?

Oh, you're alive :-)

> This way, the user could decide which columns to show/hide (maybe 
> even 
> per file/archive-type).
> No need for explicit or implicit settings - just swap out a GUI-
> component.
> 
> This would also finally allow for sorting based on size, age etc.
> I think this could be done without too much effort (so no 
> feature-creep;), and brush up good old Expander quite a lot.

Well, I'd certainly like that, as long as the rules file will be 
backwards compatible :-))

> As I have worked on the ListView in the past, I'd be tempted to try 
> it 
> out on the weekend, but I've broken too many self-made promises in 
> the 
> past,-)...

It might be worth a try :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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