Re: Keeping tree rows selected during a pop-up menu

[Matt Bragano <maestro485 comcast net>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 16:54 -0500, Matt Bragano wrote:
>   
> > I have a TreeView that allows multiple selections.  When multiple 
> > selections are made and the user right-clicks, a pop-up menu appears 
> > where the user can choose to add the selected files to a play list.  My 
> > problem is that whenever the right mouse button is released and the menu 
> > appears the selections are unselected, which makes the option to add 
> > selected files useless from the pop-up menu  (although it still works 
> > fine from the standard menu bar).
> >     
>
> If you are overriding on_button_press_event(), maybe you need to call
> the base class's on_button_press_event().
>   

You're right.  I was just ironing out the bugs and thats what I needed.
>   
> > So I'm wondering how I can maintain the selection after the TreeView 
> > itself loses focus to the pop-up menu.  I messed around with 
> > TreeSelection::set_select_function() but I was unable to make the 
> > callback slot behave properly. 
> >     
>
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