[Dev] Noteliner

[Nicholas Bastin]

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 02:24 AM, Micah Dubinko wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> The OSAF folks have agreed to let me help out a bit with a project I'm
> calling Noteliner. Noteliner is somewhere between a notepad and and
> outliner. This is somewhat related to what used to be called the "super
> widget", and might end up providing inspiration for that component if
> all goes well. Noteliner might also live on as a separate parcel.

Are you planning on building your own specific widget?  
OutlinerParcel's been spinning a bit lately because I'm waiting for 
wxTreeListCtrl to make it into Chandler, since it seems the perfect 
control for an outliner/notetaker, and it would be foolish to reinvent 
the wheel.  It's currently being written as a standalone app for 
testing, and I'll roll it back into the Parcel when Chandler moves up 
to the latest wxPython.

Also, will this widget have to be filled from the repository, or will 
it be able to be filled from an external source as well (such as a 
locally stored OPML file)?  I currently save all of my data out to the 
regular system - somewhat because storing data in the repository that 
you want to keep is probably a bad idea at this point, and also because 
I'm concerned about the data storage problems if we start storing whole 
documents in the repository.  Is that something it's designed for, or 
is it more intended to hold snippets of information, like emails, 
calendar events, etc.?  (i.e., is the plan that it should be able to 
quickly access and support several-thousand-line outlines?).

--
Nick