FilterCeleste (was: Re: Celeste - How to sort by field?)

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Oct 2 17:33:03 UTC 2001


danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:
> Hey Lex.
> I knew FilteredCeleste was good stuff, but I hadn't thought of that use
> case...
> I really think it's a good addition to Celeste.
> 
> Do you intend to put the finishes on it soon enough for an integration
> soon?
> Or do you prefer to wait for after the next integration to add it in
> peace?

I've been planning to wait.  Right now I'm very confused about what's
current at the moment  -- I don't even have a current main image, and
even the main image is missing some Celeste patches if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, and something else I remember now: to be practical, Filtering
Celeste is best when my LargeLists patch (that I sent out at the same
time as FC) is also loaded.  LargeLists lets you have extremely long
lists in Morphic without the system bogging down.  And it even works for
multi-column lists, which was fairly challenging, and I *think* it works
for drag and drop.  At least in most cases.

I'd be happiest about the whole issue if LargeLists was added to the
standard image, so that it stays up to date....


> BTW, IMHO it'd be a good idea to leave it as a subclass for a while, so
> people can choose which mode they prefer.

Okay, that makes sense.  At the very least, both UI's can be left
around--I was thinking in round 2 to actually move filtering to a
separate object.  Then you can have Classic Celeste or Filtering Celeste
depending on which filtering object you supply (and which UI opening
routine you call).


-Lex




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