Re: Tk-CanvasDirTree

It took me a while to realise I could click on the triangles (not being a Mac user). When I did "nothing happened". Actually I'd clicked on a large folder and it took a long time (1-2 seconds) to do stuff. I'd suggest using a busy cursor while folders are being parsed.

A faded version of the background image would work better. Dark images make the text very hard to read. I know the image is user supplied, but having the module do the fading makes it easier for the user to plug in "just any ol' image".

I haven't tried it nor looked at the code yet, but Windows' \\machine\drive\folders method of specifying network paths will break if the path is changed to //machine/drive/folders.

However, nice work. :)

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Re^2: Tk-CanvasDirTree by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 31, 2006 at 22:56 UTC
Yeah, the hour-glass is a good idea. I have a fairly fast machine with a good amount of ram, but I can imagine it can be slow on some older machines. I'm still working on the image portion. Tk dosn't support image operations very well, and there is no transparency. I'm hoping to make a Zinc version too, and Zinc supports zooming and transparency. Do you know of any image modules that will do a percentage fade? I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^3: Tk-CanvasDirTree by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 31, 2006 at 23:11 UTC
Image Magick does a pretty fair job once you figure out how to do stuff. The documentation is less than stella. When you install make sure you check the option to hook up Perl. From memory it doesn't jump out and hit you in the eye! DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]