scrollutil::scrollednotebook, plainnotebook and pagesman thoughts

[Harald Oehlmann]

Dear Csaba,

on last TUM teleconference, I forgot to ask you about your opinion on
the latest new text widget changes. What do you think?

I finally took today the time to test you new great widgets:
scrollutil::scrollednotebook, scrollutil::plainnotebook,
scrollutil::pagesman

I tested them and they work as described, great !

Please allow me to enter in a solution discussion:

My is situation is, that I used BWidget::notebook which show arrows when
there is not enough space. To get a TTK version, I used two
ttk::notebook, one in each other. If there is little space for the tabs,
the tab label get shortened.

I tested scrollednotebook and it did not shorten the tab labels (as
expected). That is great. Users do not see, if there are currently
invisible tabs (due to missing space). I really liked the arrow Buttons
used by BWidget. Do you see any way to indicate, that there are more
tabs than shown ?

A perfect version would be the scrollutil::pageman with two levels like
in the demo. But it takes constantly a whole column of space. It would
be great, if the pageman could be collapsed and restored by buttons or
other means, so the space is only needed on navigation and then freed
(on a button press, for example). I specially think about Android, where
vertical space is an issue.

But anyway, I think, I will implement the pageman as is.

Thank you, great work !

Take care,
Harald

[nemethi]

Am 10.03.22 um 09:54 schrieb Harald Oehlmann:

Hi Harald,

The latest changes in the text widget code have fixed several bugs,
especially related to elided text. My last tests with Tablelist a few
weeks ago were successful, both with the legacy text widget and the one
built from the revised_text branch. IMHO, this is quite promising.
Many thanks to Francois, frithrah, and Jan for their great work!

I am glad to hear that the scrollednotebook, plainnotebook, and pagesman
widgets of the the Scrollutil(_tile) package work for you as expected.
I will be thinking about your suggestions, which might find their way
into some future Scrollutil version. Very probably not in the next one
though, since I am planning to release version 1.14 soon.

Many thanks for your feedback!

Best regards,

Csaba

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Csaba Nemethi https://www.nemethi.de mailto:csaba....@t-online.de

[Harald Oehlmann]

Dear Csaba,
thank you for your valuable comment. Great, that the new text widget
works for you. It is hard to see, that anything in Tk drops on the
sholders of Francois, if original authors are gone. Anyway, great that
there is progress.

I took some time to understand the great pagesman concept of a
folder+files view on the left side, where you can open and close folders
to see the next level with infinite nesting.

For me, the styling of the labels/buttons etc is an open issue.

You have a new release ? Great ! Magic Csaba has probably exciting news !

Thank you for all your work,
Harald