[Idle-dev] TreeWidget

David Scherer dscherer@cmu.edu
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:32:35 -0500


Moshe Zadka wrote:

> The TreeWidget module contains two parts:
>
> - An absrtact interface for a tree node
> - A Tk widget to use that interface
>
> If those two parts were seperated, it would allow users of other Toolkit
> to use that interface to display  Python object trees

It would also allow users of Tk to use the tree widget for other purposes.
I needed a tree widget to experiment with dynamic inspection at one point,
and at the time I didn't know of the tree widget in IDLE, so I ended up
using one from vex.net/parnassus, which was rather inferior to the one IDLE
uses.

Dave