RE: Directory/file browser as TreeView

["Ratcliffe, Jeffrey (Peters)" <Jeffrey Ratcliffe External eads com>]

> 1. Minor.  You can't adjust the size of the little rotating triangle, and
> it can be
>    hard to click and see turn.

True.

> 2. Major. It is slow to build the tree on huge directories with many
> nested
>     subdirs. You can click and nothing happens( while it builds a 600Meg
> tree),
>     and you will then start clicking twice, etc.  So it's kind of unusable
> on big
>     trees, but pretty neat for small ones.
>     It would be nice if you could figure a way to only grab the first
> level subdirs
>     under a listing, and dynamically add to it. But I couldn't figure that
> out. :-)
>     I think that is what you are referring to in your text above.

No.

Before I started this, I looked around the archives for some code to plagarise and only found a couple of 
emails from you and muppet talking about this problem, so I was thinking about it before I put fingers to 
keyboard.

If you check out the code, the row-expanded callback does a 1-level look-ahead to populate subdirectories and 
therefore makes sure that there are triangles where there should be. And thus it is pretty quick, even on a 
large network (I checked).

> It also would be nice to have a background image.

True.

> and I started on a Gtk2 Canvas version but got sidetracked.

I've just looked at the Gtk2 Canvas docs for the first time, so I've no idea how involved drawing a directory 
tree would be.

If you finish it - I'd love to see the result.

> Thanks for the finished script. It will come in handy. :-)

I love open source!