RE: Pixbuf treeview question

[<martyn 2 russell bt com>]

> From Tim-Phillip Mullers excellent treeview tutorial:
> "The tree store will not make a copy of the object, rather it will
> increase
> the object's ref count"
> 
> I would rather that it did make a copy of the object.
> 
> I wanted to insert a pixbuf into a cell, and when I needed to change
it ,
> retrieve it, amend it and put it back.
> 
> Does this mean that I have to set up an array, g_array, linked list or
> similar
> data structure to store my pixbufs? What is the most elegant way to do
> this?

You can use the following to get the pixbuf:

	GdkPixbuf *pb = NULL;
	gtk_tree_model_get (model, &iter, COLUMN_ONE, &pixbuf, -1);


This (as Tim says) increases the ref count, so you will need to call 

	g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (pb));


Regards,
Martyn