Re: Toggle in tree view without changing selection

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker acm org>]

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:22, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker acm org> writes:
>
> > Howdy all, 
> >
> > I am using the new GtkTreeView widget in my app, but I don't know quite
> > how to get the level of control I want.  I have multiple selection
> > enabled in the tree view, and one of my column renderers is a toggle. 
> > What I want is for the user to select multiple rows and be able to click
> > the toggles without changing the selection.  When the toggle is clicked,
> > every selected row should be toggled.
> >
> > The mystery is what level do I need to hook to capture that click before
> > it changes the selection?  What signal on what widget needs to be
> > captured?
>
> Ugh.  Your users will not thank you for this interface.  You can
> actually do it currently by toggling all the rows you want, and then
> Shit/Ctrl clicking the rows to select the correct ones.  However this is
> a dreadful interface in general.  I think you may want to reconsider it.

I don't understand your objection.  In a list of 1000 items if the user
wants to toggle 100 of them how do you suggest he do it?  100 clicks?

-jwb