Re: GtkTreeView and Family

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Jay Bloodworth <jbloodworth sc rr com> writes:

> I have a couple of questions about the GtkTreeView widget:
>
> 1) Can anyone suggest a way to implement columns whose widths stay in
> fixed proportions e.g. 70%/20%/10% of the total width?  I've had some
> luck getting the width from the allocation and using arithmetic and
> setting fixed width sizing to size the columns myself, but I'm wondering
> if there is a better way.  Plus, I can't seem to find the right signal
> to connect to to handle a resize - nothing I try gets run (FWIW my
> treeview is stuffed in a scrolledwindow).

This isn't really doable right now.  Your approach should be basically
the only way to do this.  you can listen to a size_allocate on the
tree_view in order to resize yourself.  

> 2) I think I know how to do this but while I'm here I'll ask: How do you
> set the alignment of the text in a column - not the label in the header
> button, but the column data itself?

g_object_set (cell, "xalign", 1.0, NULL);
etc.

Thanks,
-Jonathan