[olug] [OT] Of parents and children

Daniel Linder dan at linder.org
Fri Feb 25 04:22:06 UTC 2005


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On Thursday 24 February 2005 10:48 am, Kevin Lanik wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but an interesting programming problem here. I'm
> programming in objective-c (language doesn't matter much though) and I
> basically have a tree. My problem is that I'd like to be able to take
> a node and move it into one of it's children (or, since there is X
> level of depth) or somewhere in it's own lineage.

<quote who="David Walker">
> I would say you can't just move a node into its children.  It doesn't make
> sense logically to me.

I'll second Davids comments.  Can you expand on the actual data these
nodes represent?  If the nodes/links are a representative of file &
directory structures... It will be different than if they are
representative of people and are part of a company org chart.

Dan

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