Re: Outlineview conundrum
Re: Outlineview conundrum
- Subject: Re: Outlineview conundrum
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 01:19:44 -0400
On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 06:54 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
BUT, there is the problem. The Outline allows dragging of both items,
and categories to reorder.
Out of your entire description of the problem, I think this might be
the most important point, however it is not strictly grammatical, and
the meaning is ambiguous. I'm afraid to guess what it means. It seems
to say "The outline allows items to be dragged (by the user), and it
allows categories to be reordered (by the user)." Or, in active voice,
"The outline view allows the user to drag items AND to reorder
categories." But I'm not sure.
Is this "asynch data fetch" to which you refer something that takes an
inordinate amount of time, ie: so long that the user could be expected
to drag other stuff around before the fetch completes? I think that is
what you say later in the post.
Maybe what you want to do is give some functionality to this
placeholder/proxy object which you are saying you would normally place
in the model while the real object gets fetched and built. Let the
placeholder remember where it is in the list, and query it for this
information when the time comes to replace it. If you are creating an
object with the fetched data, can't you create the object right away
and then initialize it with the data when that becomes available? (I'm
assuming you are putting off instantiating the relevant object until
the data is ready to be encapsulated, but then again, I'm assuming
these items in your model are objects at all.)
--
Brent Gulanowski email@hidden
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