ListView from ScrollView

[styk-tv]

Hi @willmcgugan. I'd like to open this issue a s a means of tracking one of the backlog items. Maybe there are more people interested in this feature. After days of trying I was unable to do it myself.

I was not able to find a way to create a scrollable list that could overflow out of screen with a nice scroll bar.

DirectoryTree was my main inspiration but I couldn't find a way to make it dockable like this:

        await self.view.dock(
            ScrollView(self.directory), edge="left", size=48, name="sidebar"
        )

It would be great to make the new ListView for example to contain a list of object, then bind a property like name to display something visible and then on selection to be able simply pass itself (full object) to another destination panel.

Anyone can share some ideas/tips on how to proceed or what to try?

[willmcgugan]

We're working on a branch which will make these kind of things easier to create. And there will likely be a builtin list view.

I'm afraid I can't help you much with this right now. But we will be maintaining the 0.1 branch for a while, so you could maybe build this is a third party lib?

[wasi-master]

Something like this was discussed in https://github.com/Textualize/textual/discussions/196 I believe

[styk-tv]

thanks @cvaniak and for the demo and thanks @wasi-master for ping on the solution

[willmcgugan]

https://github.com/Textualize/textual/wiki/Sorry-we-closed-your-issue

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