Funny, but with the various interface editings and "you have to add
your own icons to the interface" it always sounded like a lot of hassle
to add a custom icon. How wrong I was! Just go to the Library menu,
bottom item is "Open icon library". Now, click the Add button top left,
select a name and an icon to copy, and then it is created. Select the
current character, and in the properties editor select "Content" and
that offers a button to select from the standard font. Loads of
sensible things there, including the folder open/close I was wasting
time on. Hit save, it will recompile the library and it is now
available.

One further madness - I like the icons to have a particular colour, and
not that given. I could turn off the ApplyProperties value for colour
but on reflection I realised that the smart thing to do was follow
Tim's lead and set the colour to what I want that icon to always be.
Then I have consistency.

Another easy thing to do in this oh so powerful tool. (I've implemented
a treeview in an embeddable form, which works really nicely I think
using my FormList - the abstraction possible in EWB is brilliant.)

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Matthew Jones

Hi Matthew

<<I've implemented a treeview in an embeddable form, which works really nicely I think using my FormList - the abstraction possible in EWB is brilliant.>>

Very clever.  I agree with your comments about EWB.  It is amazing what Tim has achieved with EWB, EDB and ISAMDB.

Richard

Richard Harding wrote:

> I've implemented a treeview

For the record, treeviews are horribly complicated. Very simple
appearance, much complexity. I hope that EWB gets a nice one sometime
but I suspect that my requirements are going to be a little over a
standard one. Like I have a "root" item that cannot be collapsed or
selected but must be shown. Just horrible things to do - someone could
charge money for a good EWB treeview...

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Matthew Jones