Provide some richer (optional) UI for custom tree views

[eamodio]

Refs: #96927

It would be great to have some richer optional UI components that could be enabled within a custom view, e.g.

• Search/Filter box
• General input box
• "Details" pane -- kind of like a footer to show details about the selected item(s)
• Richer hovers Replace custom view item tooltips with a richer UI with the markdown support (like hovers) #84032

@idoprz Can you please add some more details here too?

[alefragnani]

Hi @eamodio ,

I’m glad to see the Search/Filter box being requested again. Our #54323 and #50062 issues were closed in the past, in favor of the explorer like search/filter. But, IMHO a Search/Filter box is way better 😁 .

I would add one more request (based on the Timeline experience). Expose the “title detail/description”, just like the Timeline view does today, displaying the “current/active filename”.

Thank you

[eamodio]

@alefragnani can you open a separate issue for that one - I definitely echo wanting it

[alefragnani]

@eamodio sure, opened #97193 .

Thank you

[phschaad]

With 'Rich Hovers' it would be great if you can also execute some functionality upon hovering, i.e. something along the lines of an onHover event handler.

Is this included in your point to 'Rich Hovers'? If not I'd open a separate feature-request for that.

[ghost]

Can you add a simple rename inputbox like the Explorer view?? It could be a lot comfier for the user than renaming with a floating inputbox.

[gplumb]

What can we do to help move this forward?

[chaitanyaubijawe]

what can I do to include search box in the side bar?

[alefragnani]

Right now, the only ways it to use a WebView on your Side Bar.

But, doing so, you will lose the TreeView you already have, and will have to rewrite it yourself as a HTML page.

[m-paternostro]

This feature request has some great suggestions. That said, I got here because of the "allowing adding a text field to tree views" part, which is really what I am looking for.

For our particular case, we'd use this field to allow users to write rich queries for the data: this is a feature we support on our web UI so our users are very used to it.

Btw, we'd need to be able to add commands to such text field, like "clear all", "go", ...

[MidCheck]

It's a useful feature. Is it being developed?

[ak1394]

It would be great to see some progress here. Native TreeView is great, but lacking ability to display richer UI in it will push developers to use WebView instead.

[jreineckearm]

Like others on this issue, I think allowing an inline input box on tree nodes (for example via double-clicking a node) would be massively useful. The Variables view for debug has this feature. And exposing it through the TreeView would allow creating similar debug views much quicker than implementing a new WebView.

[planger]

I second that! Having the features described in this issue, in particular the input box, would greatly broaden the use cases for tree views, allowing us to avoid relying on WebViews for many cases, which often introduce unnecessary overhead.

[16bit-ykiko]

Will the input box as TreeItem will be added in the near future? I would like to use it to replace showInputBox.

[anna-rak]

It could be very useful to have 'rename' possibilities inline in the tree view!! Thanks!