Re: How to filter a treeview?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix debian org> writes:

> [ I'm resending this after the original message from a different address
>   got a "waiting for moderator approval" reply; sorry if the other one
>   shows up too. Also I think send-by-subscribers-only lists suck :p ]

Do you prefer mailing lists full of spam? Even with aggressive spam 
filtering in place we still get half-a-dozen spam messages held for 
moderation each week.

> I'm porting over an application which used it's own custom tree widget
> in GTK+ 1.2 over to 2.0, and I'd like to use the available tree M/V/C
> widgets instead of rewriting my own or fixing the current one.
>
> On of the possibilities the custom tree offered was to set a filter
> which affected if rows were displayed or not. This is a fairly essential
> feature in the application and it has to be kept.

The libegg library (you can get it out of GNOME CVS) contains 
EggTreeModelFilter for this purpose...this is planned as a future
addition to GTK+.

Regards,
                                               Owen