Re: Specialized TreeView.

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:16, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I would like to use a treeview (and mvc friends) to display a list
> of musical content (album names, album covers, song names, artist
> names etc), the lists may vary from 3 or 4 to 3000 or 4000 rows.
>
> I think that the treeview solution is the right solution for this because
> it will probably be the most efficient with system resources
> (i.e. a GtkScrolledWindow with a 2000 member GtkVBox containing
> images, labels and buttons just sounds insane to me).
>
> I'm wondering if I can get a high enough level of versatility with the
> treeview MVC thingamajig.
>
> Here is a misc. example of the kind of feature I'll have to implement:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> /----------------------------------------------\
> | ###    AC/DC: Thunderstruck          1/10    |
> | ###   (www.recordlabel.com)                  |
> |----------------------------------------------|
> | ###    James Brown: Funky drummer    2/10    |
> | ###   (www.recordlabel.com)                  |
> |----------------------------------------------|
> | ###    Beatles (the): Number 9       3/10    |
> | ###   (www.recordlabel.com)                  |
> |----------------------------------------------|
> |   Featured albums     #####  #####  #####    |
> |   from Beatles (the): #####  #####  #####    |
> |                       #####  #####  #####    |
> |----------------------------------------------|
> | ###    Herbie Hancock: Rock it       4/10    |
> | ###   (www.recordlabel.com)                  |
> \----------------------------------------------/
>
> Ok, lets pretend that your browser/mail client didn't evily garble up
> my ascii with non-fixed fonts (like my gmail account/firefox does, grrrr),
> The `#' groups are meant to represent a thumbnail of a album jacket
> image.
>
> The point is, I will inevidably need to display one row of a predefined
> format:
>  [Pixbuf album cover, Text artist-song-label, Text Popularity]
>
> And optionaly have the child expand in another format:
> [Text: "Featured artist:", Pixbuf: album1, Pixbuf: album2, Pixbuf: album3....]
>
> Cheers,
>                                                            -Tristan
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Yes, GtkTreeView will definitely fill the bill.

See this URL for a really nice tutorial:

http://scentric.net/tutorial/treeview-tutorial.html

Ta!

Bob