Re: Looking for a tree widget

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Liam Quin <liam holoweb net> writes:
> Andrew Post <apost cbmi upmc edu> writes:
> > I'm looking for a gtk+ tree widget that's similar to the Tree widget in
> > SlingShot 2.1 (the extension library to XView). Has anyone seen such a
> > widget?
>
> I've actually been thinking of porting it recently.
>
> For those who don't know, it draws a computer-science-style tree,
> where the nodes are canvas items. The layout is very economical of
> space.
>
> Example at
>     http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/xml/docbook/guadec2001/docbooktree.gif
> although this doesn't show the widget very well I'm afraid.

A neat way of doing this might be to write it as an alternate view on
GtkTreeModel from GTK 2. (i.e. a replacement for GtkTreeView)

Then you could easily support e.g. either the more standard tree view
or this tree view as options in a file manager.

Havoc