[UI] ToolBuilder

[Colin Putney]

On Sep 10, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Gary Chambers wrote:

>> But now lets say I want to implement something like the chasing
>> senders browser in OB. It starts with a single list of methods that
>> send a particular message. Click on one, and it adds another column,
>> showing the methods that send the message you just clicked on. Click
>> on one of those, and you get another list - the senders of *that*
>> method, and so on for as many clicks as you care to make. To get that
>> to work, I need more do more than differentiate between a few
>> different but pre-defined lists the way the regular browser does. I
>> need the selector from the previous list, or at least the index of
>> the list so I can look the selector up. To do this with the existing
>> pluggable views, I'd have to do something like assign the views a
>> sequence of selectors, like #getList1, #getList2, #getList3 etc, and
>> do some DNU tricks to decode the implicit argument. Yuck.
>>
>
> Or have a "model" of the list for each instance...

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing.

Colin