Forum OpenACS Development: Permission to use mktree

Posted by Andrew Grumet on 04/11/05 10:50 PM

Matt Kruse kindly gave us permission to incorporate his mktree javascript library for dynamic trees (http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/mktree/source.html) into OpenACS. I'm reproducing his email here to document his giving us permission, and will put a link to this thread in the files I'll be committing at these locations:

/packages/acs-templating/www/resources/mktree.js
/packages/acs-templating/www/resources/mktree.css

Here's the mail from Matt:

From: "Matt Kruse" <matt@mattkruse.com>
To: <aegrumet@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:16:32 -0500

Hi,

Sorry, I didn't see this note originally:

> Would you consider letting us include it in OpenACS (https://openacs.org/)?

Sure, go for it.

Hope it helps,

Matt

2: Re: Permission to use mktree (response to 1)

Posted by Nick Carroll on 04/12/05 10:56 AM

Thats great, I was looking for a javascript tree library the other day.

3: Re: Permission to use mktree (response to 1)

Posted by Andrew Grumet on 04/12/05 06:25 PM

These files, and a few supporting images, are committed on both oacs-5-1 and HEAD.

4: Re: Permission to use mktree (response to 1)

Posted by Gabriel Burca on 04/12/05 07:25 PM

See this thread from last year. I also obtained permission to use Tigra Tree Menu at that time. It is being used in the bookmarks package. The files making up the tree are in:

packages/bookmarks/www/tree-static.js
packages/bookmarks/www/resources/tree-icons

Perhaps they can be moved up out of the bookmarks package so that other packages can use them as well.

5: Re: Permission to use mktree (response to 1)

Posted by Andrew Grumet on 04/13/05 03:09 PM

Ah, thanks for the note, I didn't know about this.

It looks good. One downside is that the menu disappears completely in browsers that have javascript turned off.

The nice thing about mktree is that it degrades gracefully in this case.

In any case, I'd support including it in the core if there's interest.