Re: about adding pop menu in treeview

[Fabio Gomes de Souza <bugtraq gs2 com br>]

Why the Tree itself is not a subclass of FMDirectoryView? If it was, it 
could already use the popup menu, the icons, the emblems, etc.

Is this possible?


Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 06:56, Zhiyuan Liu wrote:
>
> > I'am thinking about adding pop menu in treeview.
> > the nautilus architechture(2.4 version) is not perfect enough for us to 
> > add the enhancement of adding pop menu in treeview.
> > But we really need this feature in our desktop linux distribution, so 
> > I'am planning implement this feature in following way, though it is not 
> > a satisfactory way.
> >
> > 1. make a class (say, call it FMSimPopmenuView) which inherits from 
> > FMDirectoryView, because FMDirectoryView supports
> >   almost all the file   operations related to pop-memu, and also 
> > FMDirectoryView has it's own pop menu.
> >   the FMSimPopmenuView is invisible, so it works in background
> > 2. pop up menu in treeview by doing some event simulation. that is , 
> > when we right-click some node in the treeview,
> >   the  change location  operation is not performed for treeview , the 
> > same is for other views such as  
> >   FMDirectoryView/location bar etc.
> >   Instead , FMSimPopmenuView is made to change location to "the parent 
> > node of the selected node", and then is set selection
> >   to "the item coresponding to the selected node in the treeview". 
> > finally the popmenu for FMSimPopmenuView is activated
>
>
> That sounds like a horrible hack, and such a change would never be
> accepted to the upstream nautilus codebase.
>  
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