Re: GtkTreeView discussion (Jonathan Blandford)

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Thomas Leonard <tal00r ecs soton ac uk> writes:

> On 14 Mar 2003 17:24:33 -0500, Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com> wrote:
> 
> >  * Selection: Current behavior, rubberband selection, click-and-drag
> >    selection (like the clist used to have in BROWSE).  Also, need a way
> >    to possibly do hover selection, both instantaneosly for the Combo,
> >    and delayed, for things like nautilus.
> 
> One really good feature would be GTK_SELECTION_MANUAL, where GTK allows a
> selection, but never changes it itself.

That's what gtk_tree_selection_set_select_function is for, really.

> Currently, ROX-Filer has to use GTK_SELECTION_NONE, and change the
> cell background colour to handle selections, which seems to be slower
> than letting GTK handle it.

Ewww.  Don't do that!  It's highly non-a11y friendly at a minimum.

Thanks,
-Jonathan