Feature request: Put text at bottom of cell, below children.

[Ping Chen]

Thanks for this great app!

Currntly, the text of a cell can only stay at the top of the cell above all children. This is great for quickly understanding the common goal of all its children.

But when the doc is used as a guideline to achieve the goal, you'd have to finish all children one by one first. If children are above the cell text, then you'd just follow them from top down. This way is simpler to track the progress because you don't have to jump up and down.

Wish this could be impplemented one day.

Thanks a lot!

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

Sorry, but that sounds very niche and is unlikely to be supported directly.

You could emulate this by first having a cell with only children (no root text) followed by a cell that contains the common goal.

Alternatively, use the "line" based layout that has the root in front of the children instead of above, which may help also.

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[Charlie Veniot]

Hi,

Just because I'm a visual type of person, do you mean what I've done in the image below?  That was very easy to setup.

Although I don't know the innards of TreeSheets, I'm a 30-year career programmer / systems analyst and (knowing just enough generally to be dangerous) I'm betting that what you are asking for would not be a trivial change to TreeSheets.

Me having 

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

Yes, that's what I meant.

It would probably doable code-wise, but there is a bigger cost UI wise. TreeSheets is somewhat "opinionated" in what kind of layout/drawing options it offers, rather than allowing any kind of style, and there is a cost to losing simplicity by implementing every possible thing.

That said, we currently have 6 layout methods (2x3, 2 determining above or left, and the other 3 determining the style), so extending those 2 to allow below (and maybe even right) wouldn't be so crazy UI wise.. but still, maybe its a cultural bias, so far above or left have been sufficient for 99.99% of uses :)

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[Charlie Veniot]

ARG!  Premature click on "Post message"!

Me having: a low level of risk tolerance (i.e. bugs) and a huge appreciation for TreeSheets' robustness/stability , I'd be right happy trying to find practical workarounds.

If that image/idea I just shared is not at all what you are talking about, please share an image of what you have in mind.

[Ping Chen]

Thank you for the quick response!

Guess I will have to use what you guys have suggested then.
Thank Wouter for the great app!