Re: Treeview with editable checkboxes besides items?

[Jef Driesen <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Jef Driesen <jefdriesen hotmail com> wrote:
> > There is one minor issue now. Clicking the name (not the checkbox!) also
> > toggles the checkbox. This is annoying if the user only wants to change
> > the selection. Is there a way to prevent this?
>
> That's a problem with current Gtk+2: When you have more than one cell
> renderer in _the same_ column, and the Toggle cell renderer is one of them,
> then clicking that column inside that row will always cause the toggled
> callback of the Toggle cell renderer to be called, no matter into which
> renderer's area you actually click in that column.
>
> I'm grieving this myself atm as we have a playlist kind of thing in our
> player here: http://futurepast.free.fr/bmpx-columns1.jpg, and i'd like to
> stuff the checkbox into the same column as the title (i think it's a good
> usability detail to have it not being a separate column, or rather to have
> it be in the same column as the title). However, due to current Gtk+, this
> isn't possible.

As I mentioned in one of my other replies, the desired effect can be 
obtained by changing the mode for the CellRendererText:

renderer->property_mode() = Gtk::CELL_RENDERER_MODE_ACTIVATABLE;