Re: [gtk-list] Re: list speed

[Donald R Willhoit <willhoit+ andrew cmu edu>]

I'm still working on a grid widget (I'll release something soon I
promise), but in doing it I am implementing a system that queries the
data for the table entries dynamically, this allows not only *really*
huge tables that are really just SQL queries into some database on the
other side of the world, but also for in my opinion stronger seperation
of the presentation and the storage of the data.  If you don't give it a
function it can provide its own and work quite happily as a kind of more
standard widget.  This idea might be able to be extended to the list -
maybe a list could query so many objects in advance and keep a kind of
buffered version of the data.

BTW, I tried using child widgets for my grid widget but it was *way*
slow on my PPro 200.

Ryan