Re: gtk_tree_selection_select_iter after gtk_tree_store_append not working

[Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Denis Washington <denisw online de> wrote:
> However, this doesn't work. Removing the "if" conditional and printing out
> gtk_tree_selection_get_selected (selection, NULL, NULL) right after
> select_iter reveals that only the root element can be selected this way
> (printout is 1), while all others don't get selected (printout 0).

Do you mean to say that the iter you are trying to select is a child
of the root element?

> Digging a bit deeper, it seems that _gtk_tree_view_find_node(), called from
> gtk_tree_selection_select_path(), cannot find an RBNode belonging to the
> tree iter's path (it returns TRUE, which makes the next statement silently

In that case, there will be no RBNode until the root element is
expanded.  You cannot select child nodes which are "invisible"; that
is, their parent is in a collapsed state.


regards,

-kris.