CS3/CS4 Icon view widget?

Hi,
I'm looking for a widget that can present some images like in a row-wise fashion that adjusts to the width of the panel containing the images. Functionality wise it should be similar to e.g., Windows icon view in explorer, where icons that cannot be on the first row are moved to the second, and so on.
I'm thinking that one option is to use a tree view with a custom node implementation that measures the width of the tree view to calculate how many icons can be shown in each tree view node. However this solution needs a custom selection implementation, so before implementing such a solution, I want your opinion on, if an easier solution exists.
Thanks
Kind regards Toke

If your node re-size needs are simple you may achieve it by setting e.g. kBindRight | kBindLeft on the appropriate widgets in the .fr file. For a complex view I'd extend PalettePanelView to create your own implementations of Resize (adapting the widget widths in there) and perhaps ConstrainDimensions.
Ian

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