Re: CList Question...

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Chris Elston <celston corky sapien net> writes:

> I apoligize if this is a common or boring question...
>
> I'm working with the GtkCList widget for several aspects of an application
> that I am currently working on.  For the most part, it's working great but
> I'm having a slight problem.  Most of my CLists are using a select mode of
> single or browse and I'm trying to find a method of retrieving which ever
> single row is currently selected.  There appears to be a way in the old,
> depricated GtkList widget which is:
>
> GList *currentlySelected = GTK_LIST(myList)->selected;
>
> but there does not appear to be a method that I can find.  The GTK
> Tutorial aludes to a method but never specifies and I'm having a hard time
> finding it within the API reference, esspecially since the GtkCList struct
> is not listed because the API claims that all the fields are private and
> one should only use the methods given.  Has anyone run into this problem
> before and if so, how did you solve it.  Am I supposed to be keeping track
> of the which row(s) are selected through my own global variables?  Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.

You are supposed to use GTK_CLIST (clist)->selection.  This is a linked
list of ints, referring to the rows that are selected.

-Jonathan