Re: Programmer's criticism of GTK2

[Maxim Koshelev <max krascoal ru>]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> There's no conceptual reason this should be the case.  GtkTreeModelSort
> keeps lots of iters around, and survives all sorts of mutations.  What's
> the error.  Are you sure you aren't deleting the second iter as well?
The problem is in GTK. If I want to access to rows fast that I need to 
store iters,
but all stored iters become invalid after any change of the model! I DO 
NOT UNDERSTAND
WHY GTK2's List/Tree model  REALISED IN SUCH INCONVINIENT WAY. E.g. if in my
application I use list,trees, hashes or anything else then I just store 
pointers to the nodes and use them
everywhere in my program. Of course I cannot use pointer after freeing 
but I can use another (not freed yet)
stored pointers without problems. Of course I understand that due 
storing all ListStore data in GList GTK2
can't allow use iterators after changing list structure. VALID WAY IS 
STORING LIST DATA INSIDE ROW
STRUCTURE!!!!
Now:
GList -> ROW
|
GList ->ROW
|
GList->ROW
|
....

Valid way:
ROW
   |
ROW
   |
ROW
   |
....

> -Jonathan