Question

I am trying to have a tree display custom data that looks like this.

ID  DATA    PARENT  SORT
a   ...              10
aa  ...     a        10
ab  ...     a        20
b   ...              20
c   ...              30

It would look like this in xml

<root>
    <a>
        <aa/>
        <ac/>
    </a>
    <b/>
    <c/>
</root>

I don’t want to translate it into XML. I want to tie in to Tree to have it display my data as a hierarchy. I’ve created a custom data descriptor (implements ITreeDataDescriptor2), and it doesn’t quite work. It does display the nodes with the correct indentation, but it doesn’t put the nodes inside of their parents

http://pastie.textmate.org/604675

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What do I need to implement / do to get this data to display? It seems like the problem is in the getHierarchicalCollectionAdaptor function, but I’m not really sure what to do. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try extending DefaultDataDescriptor instead. In all likelihood you have a bug in your code. You will want to override the getChildren, hasChildren and isBranch methods.