SpecExtensions

Vision

Fancytree should be extensible by plugins.

Status

This feature is already implemented.

Yet there are still open questions, so this feature is open for discussion and the API is subject to change.

Please discuss here: https://github.com/mar10/fancytree/issues/13

Requirements

• TODO

Discussion

Resources

• The latest jQuery UI widget is extendable:
  http://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#widget
  • provides _super() and _superApply()
  • supports nested options
• Alex Gorbatchev uses a cool plugin architecture for TextExt:
  https://github.com/alexgorbatchev/jquery-textext/blob/master/src/js/textext.core.js
• Ivan Bozhanov implemented a plugin concept for http://www.jstree.com/

Problems

Proposal

Current Specification

A sample extension (childcounter) is available as live demo and as annotated source