Re: gtktreeview: highlighting a cell

[Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

On 12/12/2014 06:57 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I'm using GtkTreeView to implement a simple spreadsheet.
>
> With GTK 2, if use gtk_tree_view_set_cursor() to place keyboard focus
> on a given cell, with the last argument set to FALSE so that editing
> mode is not entered immediately, I get a visual indication of which
> cell is focused. It's fairly subtle, but a gray box is drawn around
> the cell content.
>
> Using the same code with GTK 3, I'm getting no such visual indication.
> The cell is focused OK -- pressing Enter starts editing -- but you get
> no visual clue as to which cell has focus. Is there any way to emulate
> the GTK 2 behavior?
>
> (In this comparison I'm using the Adwaita theme with gtk 2.24.25 and
> 3.14.5.)
>
> Thanks for any guidance.
I am using cell-data function for this and change the background color :/
https://github.com/Buzztrax/buzztrax/blob/master/src/ui/edit/main-page-sequence.c#L338-370

Stefan