Miller Columns Widget

This is really nice.

Quick bug report. When you are in the right edge of the screen already and navigate deeper, the widget should automatically scroll horizontally to show the selected tree node children. To correct, always when selecting, scroll as far right as possible.

Love the widget, its great!

Is there any way to remove the button scroll bar?

Thank you!

Mark

Hi,

The height calculations of the component expect that the horizontal scrollbar is always visible. So, unfortunately, it's not possible.

-Henri

Hi Henri,

I'm trying to use this component again as its very handy in certain circumstances, but I'm not understanding its behavior right now: why do I have to click on an element to make it selected? Whats the meaning of the second click? The first click opens, and the second click highlights, but I would like a single click to open and highlight, like a normal tree operates. Can you help?

Thank you,

Mark

Edit:
PS. I've noticed that this causes a problem when I want to add child elements, so I need a way to select a parent element with a single click, as it takes 2 right now to select a parent so that children can be added to the selected parent

Wow, I love this component! I noticed that it will keep track of what you have opened up as you move between branches of the tree. Is there a way to do this programmatically? Or to be able to open a branch programmatically?

Great component, thanks again!

Mark

Mark Waschkowski: Wow, I love this component! I noticed that it will keep track of what you have opened up as you move between branches of the tree. Is there a way to do this programmatically? Or to be able to open a branch programmatically?

Have you tried to say

millerColumns.expandItem(myItemId);

OK, thanks!

I've tried for hours now to update the addon so that I can have a single select behavior, but failed. I had code like this:

client.updateVariable(uidlId, "openedKeys", new String[] { item.getKey() }, false);
            client.updateVariable(uidlId, "rootKey", item.getKey(), false);
            client.updateVariable(uidlId, "expand",new String[] { item.getKey() }, true);
            client.updateVariable(uidlId, "requestChildTree", true, false);

but nothing seems to work. :( Then I noticed there is a 'partialUpdate' section of code that does some important stuff, is there something special I need to do to activate the partial update?

Thanks,

Mark

Hi Henri,

I expect that you are very busy, but a little help would go a long way here, and I'm stuck!

Thanks,

Mark

Not sure what you are exactly trying to do. MillerColums extends Tree on the server side so that's why there is that partial update thing.

Unfortunately the component throws NullPointerException when processing data from client-side widget, when the tree is lazy-built (using expand and collapse listeners).

112	        @Override
113	        public void changeVariables(Object source, Map variables) {
114	                super.changeVariables(source, variables);
115	                if (variables.containsKey("openedKeys")) {
116	                        opened.clear();
117	                        final String[] openedKeys = (String[]) variables.get("openedKeys");
118	                        for (String key : openedKeys) {
119	                                Object itemId = itemIdMapper.get(key);
120	                                opened.put(getParent(itemId), itemId);
121	                        }
122	                }
123	                if (variables.containsKey("openedKey")) {
124	                        openedItemId = itemIdMapper
125	                                        .get((String) variables.get("openedKey"));
126	                }
127	        }

The itemId in line 119 get's nulled in this case, so the next line throws the exception.
It's null because int the event processing code of the tree component, itemIdMapper gets all the mappings cleared.

vaadin 7 conversion would be very nice ...