Re: GtkTreeStore and GtkTreeIter

[Dennis Morgan <dennis morgan xtra co nz>]

> > hey eveyone,
> >
> > This may sound really stupid.
> > but what is the easiest way to obtain the GtkTreeIter of a newly created
> > row? 
>
> When you add a row with gtk_tree_store_append or cousins, the
> GtkTreeIter is stored in the variable you pass to it as second
> parameter. It's a return value.
>
> GtkTreeIter iter;
>
> gtk_tree_store_append   (store, &iter, NULL);
>
> The GtkTreeIter of the newly created row is stored in the "iter"
> variable.
>
> > I have a function which adds 2 or more rows but the second and subsequent rows must be a child of the one 
> > before..
> > all the nodes are based on the path to a file..
> >
> > ie /home /  someuser    / whateva 
> >     ^             ^                     ^
> >    parent    child parent      child        
> >
> > so it looks like:
> >   /home
> >       /someuser
> >             /subdirs 
>
> void 
> gtk_tree_store_append   (GtkTreeStore *tree_store,
>                          GtkTreeIter *iter,
>                          GtkTreeIter *parent);
>                                       ^^^^^^
>
> Pseudo code should look like:
>
> gtk_tree_store_append   (store,
>                          iter,
>                          NULL); //root no parents
>
> SET "/home" on iter
>
> gtk_tree_store_append   (store,
>                          iter2,
>                          iter); // parent "/home"
> SET "/someuser" on iter2
>
> gtk_tree_store_append   (store,
>                          iter3,
>                          iter2); // parent "/someuser"
>
> SET "/subdirs" on iter3
Thanks it did the trick now if only i could find a simple way to break the path up.. oh well one step at a 
time..

thanks for the help...

regards
Dennis