Advice on widgets

[R Georgeson <milray zetnet co uk>]

I'm having a go at porting a prog currently based on ncurses to gtk;
it's My Very First gtk prog and I could do with some advice on what
widgets to use and how.

1) One of the things it does is to take entries in tabular form eg

Name     Class    Place

Spreadsheet style is ideal and I've been fiddling with gtksheet but it's
not entirely to my liking, not least because of the unnecessarily big
line spacing which I have so far failed to find a fix for, plus I've
seen it deprecated here. What would the experienced use for this?

I really don't want to put up a form for each entry, it's much less intuitive.

2) Some of the entries are choices from menus; is there a menu style
widget which will select the first match to what's been typed so far,
scrolling the menu if necessary (just like the ncurses menus!). There
can be hundreds of entries in a menu.

In case it's a consideration it will have to run under Windows though it
will be developed under Linux.

-- 
Dick Georgeson