Re: Appending to treestore - how to set selection on new entry?

[infirit <infirit gmail com>]

Op 27-08-18 om 08:24 schreef David C. Rankin:
>   When I add a new file (entry) to the treestore/treemodel, how do I adjust
> the selection so that the new entry is selected? (or how do I get a treepath
> or iter from the new entry to allow me to set the selection?) The treestore
> holds the name of the entry in the 1st col and then a pointer to a struct
> containing details for that textbuffer (e.g. line, col, full path, filemode,
> uid/gid, textview and sourceview lang_id along with comment syntax, etc..)
>  (1) when I append the entry to the tree, e.g.
>
>     GtkTreeStore *treestore;
>     GtkTreeIter toplevel;

toplevel is the treeiter you use to set the selection.

>     ...
>     treestore = GTK_TREE_STORE(gtk_tree_view_get_model (
>                                 GTK_TREE_VIEW(app->treeview)));
>     /* (validate omitted) */
>
>     /* appeand name and pointer to inst as entry in treeview */
>     gtk_tree_store_append (treestore, &toplevel, NULL);
>     gtk_tree_store_set (treestore, &toplevel, COLNAME, name, -1);
>     gtk_tree_store_set (treestore, &toplevel, COLINST, inst, -1);
>
>     (here I know the 'inst' which is the pointer stored in column 2)

Next is to get the selection from your view with
gtk_tree_view_get_selection and call gtk_tree_selection_select_iter with
the toplevel iter from earlier. It should now have selected the newly
added row.

~infirit