UV Outliner Now Supports Columns

Posted by Lucas
Jan 27, 2010 at 02:18 AM

Manfred wrote:
>I don’t think this comment is irrelevant, but I don’t quite understand the point. The
>outline is just one pane (with or without columns as you want).
> >You can open up the
>Folder View (but there is no need to do so under most circumstances). So Ecco Pro really
>is a one-pane outliner according to my lights. But perhaps I don’t understand the
>technical point.
>

Good point. I never use Ecco without the Folder View, so I was forgetting that it’s optional. But I could just as well imagine a so-called “two-pane outliner” in which some users might generally keep the folder/hierarchy view hidden and just work in the text pane. In other words, it seems to me that the key issue is what’s in the pane (whether it’s hierarchical), rather than how many panes there are. Mori, incidentally, has a similar set up to Ecco, with both the hierarchical folder pane and the hierarchical “main pane” being typically visible by default (although the folders can be hidden). So would Mori be called a one-pane outliner?

As for the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction, I just took that from the Wikipedia page on outliners, which seems to cite some Microsoft source. But I’m not sure I understand it properly.

(I hasten to add that I haven’t properly search the archives, so this may have all been discussed before.)