add option to collapse all children about kint HOT 16 CLOSED

Coming from Drupal, where Kint is being used in the Devel module to output massive arrays, not knowing how to collapse them down to see just the first level is a massive usability problem. I considered Kint completely unusable until I found this was possible.

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That's not really discoverable as a UI feature.
How about having 2 buttons, one to expand by one level and one to expand all children?

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http://raveren.github.io/kint/#navigation

Left click anywhere on a collapsed dump to show its contents. Doing so on the leading [+] will un-collapse all levels of the dump as well.
Double-clicking any plus sign will un-collapse all dumps on the page.

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Ah, I see.

But how to close all child elements of an element after you opened them all?

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Click the minus - that will collapse all children recursively then click next to it, it will show only immediate children of the selected node.

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Thanks. 👍

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Hello, thanks for the input - and although I agree that it is a slight usability issue, cluttering the interface is not a solution unfortunately.

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Ok, I can feel your pain :)

So what do you suggest, an another button is not an option IMO, a tooltip would be one solution that's easy to implement as well: on the [+] button This button expands and collapses all nodes, click *next* to it to only collapse top level.

What do you think?

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a tooltip would be one solution that's easy to implement as well

That would certainly help, but I'm not a UX expert -- I don't know if that would be sufficiently discoverable.

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I'm guessing it's better than nothing, I'll add it.

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We in drupal world were used to krumo, by default it only expanded top levels so we can get an overview of the object. Now Kint goes like this.

and what I really want by default is this

So maybe some modifier in config files, where we can add (open only first level) would be good. But I would also say that would be best UX for all anyway, but if people differ with that, at least to have option to set it like that. I know 99% of drupal people would use that setting.

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Click the minus - that will collapse all children recursively then click next to it, it will show only immediate children of the selected node.

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Maybe I am using different version of KINT. I dont see any next. But it does work when I click on the whole highlighted area as I wanted it to work.

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I dont see any next.

Have trouble finding the "Any" key too? :)

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I was reading above where it says
"This button expands and collapses all nodes, click next to it to only collapse top level." so somehow I got it that it must say next :) but when I read it now, I see I got it wrong.

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Anyway, the question of the button's lack of clarity continues at #191

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