Re: single column cursor in GtkTreeView

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

> @Todd: thanks for the recommendation. It may be what we need.
>
> @all: which component is drawing the cursor. I the CellRenderer doing
> it?  If so, am I right believing I can solve my problem, but using an
> own CellRenderer.
>
> In the end I would like to highlight the current row and column by a
> border (rectangle framing the row and column) and the cursor, with
> 'inverting' the cell (like currently the whole row is drawn).

This seems to be an awfully common question.  Perhaps it's time GtkTreeView implemented a "highlight single 
cell" option, and perhaps provided a secondary highlight option that could quickly and easily add a secondary 
highlight to selected cells (with quick commands to change an entire block of rows or columns).

I'm wondering because a while back I had a situation where I would have liked to have had the highlighting on 
the particular cell that had been clicked on, and a lesser highlight on the row.  It wasn't a huge issue, but 
it would have made life a lot easier.

In the meantime, would it be possible to either switch off highlighting entirely, or "hide" the highlight 
(set the highlight style equal to the normal style); and then fake the highlight using a background colour 
property?  I'm not sure how you'd go about picking which specific cell was clicked on, but it aught to be 
possible.  The hard part, I presume, though, would be making it look consistant with regular selection 
highlighting.


Fredderic

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