Re: [gtk-list] GTK 1.2 questions

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Ron Forrester wrote:
> 
> 1) I am making use of CList. By default it didn't seem to have any
> 	scrolling ability, so I embedded it in a scrolled window. This
> 	works pretty good, but has an undesirable side-effect. When
> 	scrolling vertically, the CList header scrolls as part of the
> 	list. Is there any way to keep the header frozen while the contents 
> 	of the CList scroll?
> 

Don't use the _with_viewport() add function, just add the CList normally.

> 2) When the application closes, I would like to store off the width of 
> 	each of the columns of the CList so I can restore them on the next
> 	invocation. I see there is a call to set the width of a column, but 
> 	none to get the width.
> 


There's a resize_column signal you could use to track resizes. There may
be a bettter way though.

> 3) In a signal handler for a button, I enter a loop and do some
> 	possibily time consuming task. I want to provide some feedback to
> 	the user on the progress. I have tried using both a progress bar
> 	and a status bar, but I had the same problem with both. In the
> 	loop, I attempt to update the status, but the widget never updates
> 	itself, until the signal handler leaves. I tried calling
> 	gtk_widget_realize(), and all that did was make the loop run much
> 	slower. I assume I am starving the message pump or something? Is
> 	there a right way to do this?
> 

See the FAQ on www.gtk.org.

Havoc