hierarchical lists with collapsing arrows

[Martin Baxter]

Oakes,

Sorry, I should have described that more clearly, I was referring to the 
tabstops property of fields. See tabstops in the docs.

It is a list of the form: 24,48,90,178

The numbers are distance in pixels from the left of the field. The 
property governs where column boundaries are located. Any tabs in your 
text will align to them. you can have gridlines drawn where they occur 
if you want or none if you don't.

You can set the tabstops in the inspector for a field or in the message 
box or a script like in this example:

set the tabstops of field "myfield" to "24,48,90,178,309"

Useful property

Martin


Xeubie Tsu wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> What do you mean by "tab stop"? Do you have any sample code or app that 
> incorporates this idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> Oakes
> 
> 
>> From: Martin Baxter <mb.ur at harbourhost.co.uk>
>> Reply-To: mb.ur at harbourhost.co.uk,How to use Revolution 
>> <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> Subject: Re: hierarchical lists with collapsing arrows
>> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:20:32 +0100
>>
>> Xeubie Tsu wrote:
>>> Well, I would still like it to act as a list - i.e., I want to be 
>>> able to highlight items in blue. It's just that I don't want the 
>>> arrow to collapse unless I click the arrow.
>>>
>>> I'll try that workaround...not to familiar with "the clickChar," but 
>>> I'll look it up. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Oakes
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Brian Yennie <briany at qldlearning.com>
>>>> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: hierarchical lists with collapsing arrows
>>>> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:05:51 -0700
>>>>
>>>> Xeubie,
>>>>
>>>> What happens when you turn off the "list behavior" of that field?
>>>> It looks like this only happens with list behavior turned on - dunno 
>>>> if anyone else has deeper insights!
>>>>
>>>> One workaround would be to use "the clickChar" to determine what 
>>>> exact character they actually clicked on - and make sure it was the 
>>>> arrow.
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>>
>>>> - Brian
>>>>
>>>>> I forgot to mention, here's the code in my list field:
>>>>>
>>>>> on linkClicked
>>>>>  if the angle of image arrow.gif = 0 then
>>>>>    set the angle of image arrow.gif to -90
>>>>>  else
>>>>>    set the angle of image arrow.gif to 0
>>>>>  end if
>>>>> end linkClicked
>>>>>
>>>>> Like I said, it treats the whole list item as a link, so the arrow 
>>>>> changes direction even if I click on the text next to the arrow. 
>>>>> For an idea of what it looks like, I took a snapshot and attached 
>>>>> it to this message.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Jim Lyons <jimlyons at earthlink.net>
>>>>>> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>>>>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: hierarchical lists with collapsing arrows
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:04:48 -0400
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Xeubie Tsu wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm attempting to make a list field that can organize context 
>>>>>>> into "folders." I want an arrow icon next to folder names that 
>>>>>>> you can click to collapse the folder. One way to get the arrow 
>>>>>>> icon next to the text is to use "imagesource," but doing so makes 
>>>>>>> it PART of the list field itself so you can't click on it (you 
>>>>>>> can only click the whole list item).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone know an easy way to do this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Make the first character with its imagesource set to the arrow 
>>>>>> icon also link text (ie set its text style to link) and use the 
>>>>>> linkClicked message in the field script to handle it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim Lyons
>>
>> What I do is perhaps not exactly simple, but I set a tab stop so that 
>> all the disclosure graphics are effectively in a table column of their 
>> own. Each line has a leading character (with or without an 
>> imagesource) followed by a tab. Then when a line is clicked, I check 
>> the horizontal mouse co-ordinate (minus the left co-ordinate of the 
>> field) to see if it is within the first column as defined by the 
>> tabstops property, and if so I treat it as a potential expand/collapse 
>> event.
>>
>> I like this because it allows for some latitude in click accuracy, and 
>> lets me do entirely different things when the remainder of the line is 
>> clicked or double-clicked.
>>
>> Martin Baxter
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