Re: [g-a-devel] Table cell selection (was: Notebook's selection interface ...)

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

So just a clarification, when you use the Selection interface or selection 
functions of the Table interface for GtkTreeview, you use row indexes 
rather than cell indexes?

Marc

At 01:43 PM 4/15/2002 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Michael Meeks wrote:
> ...
>
> > > Actually the individual cells should be selected via
> > > AtkSelection/Accessibility_Selection, via the normal mechanism for
> > > containers.
> >
> >         Quite possibly - but it didn't work; does it now ?
>
> Yes, well I believe that GtkTreeView does not support
> cell selection (only row selection), so this is a theoretical
> perspective at the moment (unless I'm mistaken).
>
> There is a complication with GtkTreeView since it seems to have
> two "selection-like" notions; a selected row (which we report via
> the Selection interface and should also report via the Table
> selection API), and a "currently focussed" cell.
>
> It's not clear how we can express that via our current API,
> so what we are doing (I believe) is generating "focus" events
> for the currently "boxed" child, while reserving the "selected"
> state for items in the currently selected row.
>
> I suppose that we could use Table row selection for the
> GtkTreeView row selection, and cell selection for the
> "focussed" child, but it seems semantically inconsistent to
> decouple row/column selection from child selection in this way.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Bill
>
> >         Regards,
> >
> >                 Michael.
> >
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