Re: format text in TreeWidget.

[Tassilo Horn]

Alin Soare <as1789@gmail.com> writes:

> I did write the following code.
>
> As the :tag text is very long on some lines, and pass over the end the
> line, it is displayed on myltiple lines, and the tree looks spoiled. I
> wish to make the tree widget show the text formatted correctly, and on
> maximum N columns.

Hm, this somehow works, but is not perfect:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(widget-create 'tree-widget
               :node '(push-button :tag 
"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" :format "%[%t%]\n")
               `(tree-widget
                 :tag ,(with-temp-buffer
                         (set-fill-column 50)
                         (insert "bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla 
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla 
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla")
                         (fill-paragraph)
                         (buffer-string)))
               `(tree-widget
                 :tag ,(with-temp-buffer
                         (set-fill-column 60)
                         (insert "foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo 
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo 
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo")
                         (fill-paragraph)
                         (buffer-string)))
               `(tree-widget
                 :tag ,(with-temp-buffer
                         (set-fill-column 70)
                         (insert "baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz 
baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz 
baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz baz")
                         (fill-paragraph)
                         (buffer-string))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The problem is that only the first line has correct tree lines...

But maybe that's still a pointer into the right direction.

Bye,
Tassilo