Re: Editing in GtkTreeView - Automatic Edit and Unwanted Edit Box?

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 05:16:49PM +0100, Tony Cowderoy wrote:
> First question - is there any (preferably easy) way with a GtkTreeView 
> to make any editable cell that is selected automatically enter edit mode 
> and automatically commit the changes when focus moves elsewhere?

IIRC this is tricky to get right, so easy probably no.
Hopefuly someone who has a working example will post it...

> Second - in the application that I'm trying to develop I have a 
> GtkTreeview with data in a GtkListStore and some, but not all, of the 
> cells editable.  If I have a cell selected, but not opened for editing 
> (this includes non-editable cells) and I then start typing, an editable 
> box appears in the bottom right-hand corner of the GtkTreeView, which 
> displays what I'm typing.  If I press enter, it goes away and the text 
> of the selected cell is not updated.  Does anyone know why this odd 
> behaviour is happening and what I can do to stop it?

I suppose it's the search box.  In such case:

  gtk_tree_view_set_enable_search(treeview, FALSE);

(or set the corresponding property).

Yeti

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