Re: Expand/collapse treeview keyboard keys

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 14:00, Rui Lopes wrote:

> Is there any reason for not having the left/right keys expand/collapse a
> node?   And perhaps, also using them to move focus to the parent node
> (if we are on a child-node)?

Partially, I suspect, because a tree view can have multiple columns, and
the left/right arrow keys move focus between columns.  It could be a
useful addition in the single column case, though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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