I forgot to say that the real value I see in Accordion is that it manages its panels (ie, is a fully fledged Container), but also the fact that it provides a mechanism to very quickly navigate between the panels. That is where all of this began for me. I was going to stack a load of Expanders together, but then change the mouse click behaviour so that they open and close based on a single click.
On 15 July 2011 21:40, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does such a component exist in other GUI toolkits or have a name? >> Is even the suggestion of having multiple expanded panels in an >> Accordion considered heresy? :) > > I think an accordion, by nature, has only a single panel open at a time. But > I have definitely seen UIs that use multiple expanders in an accordion-like > way. Could you just use a vertical BoxPane with fill="true" to contain the > Expanders? > >
