Any way to define different types for children of a node in an extension?

[jsadusk]

Specifically, I'm building an extension with a variadic entry point. The things under the variadic trees are completely different. I haven't figured out a way to make a different tree structure for the different top level nodes.

To this effect, I tried putting

:child-type (if (some-predicate item) `one-node-type `another-node-type)

But it failed, I'm assuming because it is expecting a quoted symbol in :child-type

[Alexander-Miller]

Dynamic children like that are not quite possible - when a node is expanded treemacs gathers a bunch of information based on the child-type just once, regardless of how many children are created.

You shoud still be able to use the "mono-type" node approach described here:
https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs/blob/master/Extensions.org#monotyped-nodes

[jsadusk]

Ah, thank you, I saw this section but didn't understand how it applied to my situation. This will work for my purposes.

By the way, this is my work in progress:
https://github.com/jsadusk/trunk-io-tree