listview and treeview items should have their own "renderer" property
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                 Key: PIVOT-526
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-526
             Project: Pivot
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: wtk
            Reporter: Appddevvv


I was trying to change the way the selection looks when an item is selected 
(versus non-selected). This was to provide additional annotations for the 
selected item (for me, I wanted to change the highlighted box color, highlight 
box size, and text font would change based on selection status). I can do this 
if I write a more complex renderer with the logic built into it, or I could 
break this logic out and when the item is selected us the renderer from my 
basket of renderers based on state e.g. the selected state. I am a total flub 
at writing renderers and gave up on this for today but this was my thought 
around controls with items in them.

I don't think anyone is going be perish without this, but it does allow clients 
of the library to provide their own renders to reflect their own state versus a 
single renderer that has a bunch of switches in it to reflect state. This makes 
per-item rendering easier to write...even in the existing pivot code actually. 
You could probably factor out a subclass to handle common rendering for 
controls with items in them.

You can mark this one for the future. I'm not sure I am using the word renderer 
correctly here. Its' whatever "<insert class name here>" is used to draw the 
individual items. I'm not sure this is the skin or the renderer.

If a default renderer is used when none is present on the item, you would fall 
back into the current approach. Hence, the existing API does not need to change 
at all but the "item" api would be enhanced.

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