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Custom icons in tree pane
I'd like to put custom icons, e.g. "spinning, loading, waiting" icon, into tree pane instead of standard Folder and File.
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Inappropriate?Can you attach a screenshot of what you mean please?
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Inappropriate?I mean in properties window, choose custom icons for groups (folders) and leaf elements (files)
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Inappropriate?Ah, yes, just what I feared. The question is: how to specify these icons in an easy, fast and intuitive way?2 Comments
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Couldn't each icon simply have a textual equivalent? We do this today with smilies. -
it could, but with 150+ icons, how will you remember? I'm thinking about how to do this, I'll get back to you all once my ideas are a little more formed.
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Inappropriate?On the properties window, add "Icon for open folder", "Icon for closed folder" and "Icon for file". I don't mean I want to customize them per node, I want to attach "style" to tree to make it feel like I want.2 Comments Add a comment
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Ah ok, that's easier to do. But is it worth it? How common is this requirements? What I am doing next week is to add a style in which the icons are [+] and [-] instead of folders...what are some other common example of styled trees?
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Tasks, emails, builds, projects, site map, any other hierarchical control which is not folders/files.
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Inappropriate?E.g. when I'm trying to present hierarchical tasks view, I want icons to be something about tasks and groups, not about files and folders.2 Comments Add a comment
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I think I need a screenshot, I'm afraid I'm not getting it, my apologies.
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Same screenshot, I mean I drop tree pane to the surface, enter mock content, then go to properties and add some style do emphasize that those entities in the tree are something special
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Inappropriate?Hi Ilya, although it's not exactly what you wanted, the latest update has improvements in the Tree, which might help: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=957
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Inappropriate?The List of links with Icons is a pretty common design pattern for the web (like it or hate it),
What about using curly braces and the icon "key" - for example
{Download} Get File
{Person} Add User
{Email} Send Message
{Push Pin} Add Task
This could be done perhaps using the same keys/tags that icon search knows about?
You might have to provide the icon size slider in the property inspector to go along with this, since matching the text and icon sizes would be tricky, and may not always be what's wanted. I would assume you would always want the icons in such a list to match in with each other (i.e. not different sizing for icons in the same list).
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this is a good idea, but it's pretty advanced. We'll get to it eventually, but it will take a little while. Thanks dan2bit!
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