Clickable Tree Menu using Perl

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Re: Clickable Tree Menu using Perl by planetscape (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2006 at 17:32 UTC
I realize you specified Perl, but I suspect this is more of a job for javascript. However, the following nodes (locating by Super Searching for "tree view"), may give you some hints or ideas: JAVA GUI for perl program tree view control, html HTML tree view Conversion for texts Recursion question... Gtk+ HTML Tree Viewer HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: Clickable Tree Menu using Perl by jdtoronto (Prior) on Jul 07, 2006 at 18:00 UTC
At least one of my large clients insists that we do his Web applications without using ANY client side scripting at all (no JS, no cookies). So we need to do this for function menues on his applications. I dont have code I can extract to show you. However I can tell you that we use HTML::Template. In the template each branch of the tree is wrapped in an IF block. Of course you can next the IF's to get the tree depth. In your case, say dir1 gets clicked, you toggle the state of dir1 on the server side and when the page gets rebuilt the branch is either displayed or not. In the past we have constructed complex data structures to make it all work, this usually means that each branch is fully populated all the time by the templating engine, only the IF parameters get changed. The HTML produced that way is pretty compact. Combine that with some spiffy CSS, such as that found at listamatic2 will give you the idea of how to generate the layout. It isn't trivial, but it ain't rocket science either. If I could figure it out I am sure you can! jdotornto Update I was just doing some more browsing and saw this one - a complete pop-up list with just HTML and CSS here.	[reply]
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Re: Clickable Tree Menu using Perl by scmason (Monk) on Jul 07, 2006 at 17:01 UTC
If I understand you correctly, you want a GUI element that allows for a tree view of a directory structure? If so: Tk::DirTree This is a directory tree just like you describe. If you want something more generic, see Tk::Tree Hope this helps! "Never take yourself too seriously, because everyone knows that fat birds dont fly" -FLC	[reply]
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Re: Clickable Tree Menu using Perl by Anonymous Monk on Jul 08, 2006 at 08:35 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=javascript+tree&mode=all	[reply]
Re^2: Clickable Tree Menu using Perl by jdtoronto (Prior) on Jul 08, 2006 at 15:19 UTC
Interesting collection! Looks like some stuff worth investigating there. Thanks AM! jdtoronto	[reply]
Re: Clickable Tree Menu using Perl by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 08, 2006 at 12:56 UTC
If you are willing to switch back to Tk, you could try my Tk::CanvasDirTree. It is a single-click dir tree browser with floating background image. It has a few demos to show it's usage. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum	[reply]