[plt-scheme] Multi-column list box control?

On Aug 31, 2008, at 3:46 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:

> You're right about the gaps,
> I'm thinking the Embedded GUI http://docs.plt-scheme.org/embedded- 
> gui/index.html
> might offer a better mechanism than the panels for implementing this.
>
> I can't find a working implementation anywhere in the plt-full
> distribution - and the tests don't seem to work.



You may safely assume that this collects is in the grave yard for  
now. We started Mike on this project but he didn't really finish and  
we didn't maintain it. Sorry -- Matthias






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> s.
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> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 5:24 AM, praimon <praimon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>> I've stayed clear of the framework, so forgot about
>> the dragable panel -- I just now applied it to my own
>> example and it ALMOST works. Unfortunately, it leaves
>> a prominent gap between columns that I saw no way of
>> eliminating.
>>
>> I won't speak for the others who brought this up, but
>> I was thinking along the lines of the windows explorer
>> file directory. As I mentioned, it's a pervasive
>> control-type: seamless rows and columns, resizable
>> and sortable columns, non-editable but selectable content.
>>
>> In the end, it's just a table, so any number of
>> functional equivalents can be worked up in mred. But
>> they all look rather clunky and grid-like.
>>
>> I will definitely study your code. Thanks for the example!
>> regards,
>> praimon
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle
>> <spdegabrielle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> are you thinking of something like this?
>>>
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