Re: libseed-list Advanced use of Gtk.TreeView

[Olivier Tilloy <olivier tilloy net>]

Right, thanks for the explanation Tim, that makes sense!

Olivier

On 2010-05-28, Tim Horton <hortont424 gmail com> wrote:
> I believe he means it's upstream in Gtk+ Git. gir-repository is going away (it was a stopgap while people moved gir generation into respective projects), and is not really being updated.
> 
> Tim Vera
> 
> On May 28, 2010, at 5:45, Olivier Tilloy <olivier tilloy net> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks a lot Alan, compiling this updated gir file fixed my issues!
>>
>> However, I don't quite understand when you say it is fixed upstream. My
>> previous gir file was that of gir-repository git master, presumably the
>> most up-to-date version, still it is very different from the one
>> available on your server. Do you mean that the branch at
>> git://git.gnome.org/gir-repository is not "upstream"?
>>
>> Do you reckon it would be worthwhile filing a bug in ubuntu about the
>> broken gir file and hope a minimal fix (it that is possible) could make
>> it to the current release in order to make seed usable with Gtk?
>>
>> Anyway, thanks a bunch, I'm now going back to writing my extension for
>> epiphany, I'll hopefully keep this list posted soon about how cool it is!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>>
>> On 2010-05-28, Alan Knowles <alan akbkhome com> wrote:
>>> The gir / typelib you are using is incorrect.
>>> ** Message: [INVOCATION] seed-engine.c:599: Invoking method: set_column_types with 2 'in' arguments and 1 'out' arguments
>>> should say this.
>>> ** Message: [INVOCATION] seed-engine.c:609: Invoking method: set_column_types with 3 'in' arguments and 0 'out' arguments
>>>
>>> Basically there are bugs with the one shipped on ubuntu - it's fixed upstream.
>>>
>>> Quick easy fix is 
>>> wget http://devel.akbkhome.com/seed/Gtk-2.0.gir
>>> g-ir-compiler Gtk-2.0.gir -o /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Gtk-2.0.typelib
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On 28/May/2010, Olivier Tilloy wrote: 
>>>> Thanks for the hints Alan!
>>>>
>>>> I got the latest version of seed up and running, and I'm writing a
>>>> standalone example to ease my tests, and unfortunately I'm getting stuck
>>>> even earlier now :(
>>>> Here is what I did, with my configuration:
>>>>
>>>> - Running Ubuntu 10.04, with GLib 2.24.1 and GTK 2.20.0.
>>>>
>>>> - Grabbed gobject-introspection 0.6.12 (tarball), compiled and installed it.
>>>> - Grabbed Seed 2.31.1 (tarball), compiled (with --enable-debug) and
>>>> installed it.
>>>> - Grabbed the latest gir-repository (git), compiled and installed it.
>>>>
>>>> - Grabbed the latest seed-examples, gtktreeview.js works (although with
>>>> some warnings).
>>>>
>>>> I'm attaching my standalone example (a simple TreeView populated with a
>>>> TreeStore), along with the output I get when running it with
>>>> --seed-debug=all, hoping that someone may point out what I'm doing wrong
>>>> and how to fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Olivier
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2010-05-26, Alan Knowles <alan akbkhome com> wrote:
>>>>> you may need a more recent build of seed to get get_cursor to work, or try using this gir
>>>>> http://devel.akbkhome.com/seed/Gtk-2.0.gir
>>>>> g-ir-compiler Gtk-2.0.gir -o /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Gtk-2.0.typelib
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect the version of seed you are using may not handle out args that well..
>>>>>
>>>>> the api docs for it are here.
>>>>> http://devel.akbkhome.com/seed/Gtk.TreeView.html
>>>>>
>>>>> If gir and seed are uptodate this should work, although I've not tested it.
>>>>> print(tree.get_cursor().path.to_string());
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the other way to get it..
>>>>> var iter = new Gtk.TreeIter();
>>>>> var selection =  tree.get_selection(null, iter); 
>>>>> print(tree.get_model().get_path(iter).to_string());
>>>>>
>>>>> Note if path is not set, then they will fail
>>>>> check with view.get_selection().get_selected_rows(view.get_model())  to see how may rows are set..
>>>>>
>>>>> There is alot of treeview code here to look at.
>>>>> http://git.akbkhome.com/?p=app.Builder.js;a=blob;f=Builder/Window.js
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Alan