Fwd: Which widget should I use?

["Fernando Apesteguía" <fernando apesteguia gmail com>]

Ok, Many thanks

I think I'll use a GtkTreeView.

Best Regards

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1 burntmail com>
Date: Aug 9, 2006 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: Which widget should I use?
To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org

Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I need to represent some data in my application. The data is actually a
> trace of functions. The size of the list is not fixed, but it has a limit
of
> 200 elements. When the 200 limit is reached, I clear the older element and
> then add the new one.
> I have the list in a file (from procfs) and now I need to show it. I
thought
> about to draw the name of the function inside a rectangle and then an
arrow
> pointing to the next element. Something like this:
>
> _____            _____
> |func1|   --->   |func2|
> ----------           --------
>
> But I don't know what kind of widget I need to use. Maybe this is not the
> best way to represent this... should I use a treeview to show the list?
> Which are the advantages?

Well, unless you have a phenomenally wide screen, 200 boxes pointing to
each other as you depict above will never fit.  Besides, once you get
above 5-10 boxes, comprehension begins to plummet.

I'd just put them in a simple list, in whatever order makes sense to
your audience (first to last or last to first.)  You can do that with a
tree view backed by a list store.

--
Guy Rouillier
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