Re: Once again the NSOutlineView

[Andreas Heppel]

Gregory,

On 2004-02-15 00:35:23 +0100 Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

[snip]
> > > > Perhaps you may want to take over the maintainance this class?
> > If there is noone else to do it right now, I will, yes. In particular as it 
> > seems like I was the only app developer who is intensely using this class 
> > (or
> >
> > say, who is trying to get most outof it :-) But be aware that I probably do 
> > not understand this code much better than you ;-)
>
> I wrote NSOutlineView, so please, if you have any questions about why 
> something
> was done in a particular way, please let me know.  I use this class heavily in
> Gorm.  It was, in fact, originally implemented by me so that we could have an
> outline based view of the class hierarchy in Gorm.
That's good to know. Maybe I am going to bother you with some questions later 
:-)

> > But seriously, I can do it and maybe I should also take some care of 
> > NSTableView as NSOutlineView's ancestor. I've come across some strange 
> > stuff here too, but didn't dig into it, yet. BTW, who is the originator of 
> > those classes? Maybe he can be of some help for understanding the code.
>
> Fabien worked on NSTableView mainly, he and I cooperated when I wrote
> NSOutlineView to make the code more efficient.   There is a lot of complex 
> code
> in both of these classes, so change them with care.
My original intent was to get NSOutlineView working for my purposes, in 
particular dnd and some reloading issues. Of course, I tried (and with 
possible further changes will try) to not break any existing code.
Concerning the maintenance of those classes (or NSOutlineView in particular) I 
am quite indifferent. If there is need for a maintainer I can do it, if there 
is already one, I don't see a reason for a change.
I think, we only have to agree on who is going to responsible for this.

Cheers,
Andreas

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