Re: GtkTreeView madness...

[Jasper Huijsmans <j b huijsmans hetnet nl>]

2/14/02 8:43:47 PM, Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com> wrote:

> Jasper Huijsmans <j b huijsmans hetnet nl> writes:
>
> > 2/14/02 7:32:15 PM, Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com> wrote:
> >
> > > Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Fabio Rotondo 
wrote:
> > > > > 1-  can anybody explain me where is the main difference 
> > between GtkListStore
> > > > > and GtkTreeStore?
> > > >
> > > > Elements of a list don't have children.  Elements of a tree 
can 
> > have children.
> > > > > 2 - If I have all my data inside my private structures and 
> > want to show 
> > > > > them inside
> > > > > a TreeView, which one of the above shoud I use to not 
> > duplicate data?
> > > > The best way is to implement a GtkTreeModel interface for 
your 
> > private
> > > > data structure.
> > >
> > > Rather then that, you can put your data in the model (ie, make 
> > the
> > > column type G_TYPE_POINTER), and use
> > > gtk_tree_view_column_set_cell_data_func to custom set your 
> > values.
> > >
> >
> > This works perfectly for me. It would IMVHO also be an excelent 
> > example to add to the documentation, because it is not 
immediately 
> > obvious. This allows practically any kind of data to be 
presented 
> > in a treeview (without having to write a custom model).
>
> I'm pretty busy fixing bugs in it. )-:  If you are up to taking 
the time
> to make some small fixes to the docs, that would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan

I wasn't suggesting you should do it. I'm sorry if I gave that 
impression. I also can't promise I can find the time to help with 
the docs, but I'd like to try. Probably will be after the 2.0 
release I'm afraid.

Oops, I also seem to have send it to you personally, instead of to 
the list. Sorry again :(

Jasper