Is Treeview nearly usable? - Ext JS

We are about 60 days from rollout of a site. We really want to use Jack's tree, as it has so many things we need already in it.

But the question is, is it stable enough to work with now? Is there enough documentation or forum posts to make the key features work? Is anyone here, besides jack fairly familar with it? The wiki was rather spare.

We realize it's alpha.. and that more work than we might like is required. I guess we just want to know if it's worth the risk, and we can get enough help here if we run into snags.

# 2   03-12-2007, 09:08 PM

The tree has been 99% done since it was initially released. I'm not sure where you get the impression that there has been any waiting necessary to get started using it.

# 3   03-12-2007, 09:26 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffHowden The tree has been 99% done since it was initially released. I'm not sure where you get the impression that there has been any waiting necessary to get started using it. Well that's great news. I simply saw a thread elsewhere -- about a week ago -- that suggested it was not quite that far along. I will try to find the post, and direct them to this one for clarification.

# 4   03-12-2007, 09:32 PM

Well, I'm not sure which thread you're referring to, but perhaps the original poster of that thread was trying to do something that currently wasn't well supported, buggy, or not implemented. The real question for you, is what are you needing to do with the tree?

# 5   03-12-2007, 10:42 PM

I am using the tree extensively for my project, and have found it to be stable, and great to work with. I had some difficulties figuring out how to do some things that were not obvious. Thanks to Jeff and Jack, I was able to get solutions to those use cases pretty quickly. All are available via searches in the forums. There were several bugs that surfaced while i was working with the tree and Jack fixed them in less than a day. :-) The sooner you start using the code the more likely you will be to get any bugs you encounter fixed before the GA release. The more people that use it, the more likely we all will be to get a bug free version. That said, i haven't had any problems with the tree in the latest rev. I must say its a 1000 times better than any other tree code I have seen. You won't be disappointed.

# 6   03-13-2007, 02:34 AM

I've switched over. I had a large, ugly addition of my own handwritten code to implement drag and drop into the YUI tree. I now realize I could have had 2 weeks vacation instead of wasting my time. The DnD dragging from an Ext.View into an Ext.tree.TreePanel is so easy and elegant that I refactored to use it in a couple of days. It really is a thing of beauty. Go for it. The docs aren't all there yet, but using the tree examples and a bot of source reading you can create a very good solution. And then perhaps put back a bit of knowledge by contributing wiki articles or something.