Jalama

0.5) Look at using 2 lines on each menuitem to display string, because long
strings (eg pisco species names) get cropped and are hard to tell apart

Update to items (1) and (3)

- now have alphabetizing done in Java code - XSElementDeclarationWrapper, and
not in XBL. This paves the way for orderign schemes to be configurable in rules
(see item 3).

Now populates a little quicker, but still prompts to say javascript is slowing
down rendering. Prime suspect is actual creation of new menuitems (cloning and
adding), so need a way around that (see item 1)

done item 0.5) (using multiple lines on each menuitem to display string, because
long strings (eg pisco species names) get cropped and are hard to tell apart)

Summary of what's left to do, and one added todo for color coding:

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1) rethink how enumerations get populated at runtime - currently done in
javascript, and this is so slow (for large lists like species in the pisco app)
that firefox pops up a dialog asking if user wants to terminate JS process.
Prime suspect is actual creation of new menuitems (cloning and
adding); possibilities include:
- optimizing the existing javascript code (alphabetizing already done in Java
code - XSElementDeclarationWrapper, and not in XBL)
- getting menuitems from a call to a java Command in the backend

Now populates a little quicker, but still prompts to say javascript is slowing
down rendering. Prime suspect is actual creation of new menuitems (cloning and
adding), so need a way around that (see item 1)

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2) make scrollbox arrows bigger and easier to hit - need to inherit from and
override default XUL arrowscrollbox to do this (see how default XUL menuitem was
overridden in a similar fashion, in the
jalama/chrome/content/widgets/enumeration_bindings.xml file)

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3) reordering of entries on 2d popup screen - for example:
a) cluster species groups together, or species in the same spatial zone are
grouped together
b) other arbitrary grouping to accomodate individual preferences
c) most recently used at top, with separator line?

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4) (NEW) color-code boxes in 2-d menu to group items (for example, invertibrates
blue, kelps brown, seagrass green etc). This might be easier if dataset has a
separate species table that has some classification data in it, or if dataset
has a taxonomy section filled in

end of grant cleanup. Postponing

Original Bugzilla ID was 1933