Scrollable menus, selection in Clist, size of windows, etc...

[Livio Baldini Soares <livio linux ime usp br>]

Hi all at GTK,


  First of all nice job on GTK! It's made lots of people's life tons
easier. I just joined the lists, and wanted to share some specific
problems/ideas I have had during my short usage of GTK.

  I'm extremely new to GTK, and I was instructed at GTK's homepage
that we should send dummie questions to this list. I have several
topics I want to ask about, so here we go:

1) There is a broken link at GTK's home page. It's `CVS Instructions'
on the left side of the main page (www.gtk.org/index.html). Who should
I report this to? And where is GTK's CVS, or where is that CVS
instructions page?

2) When doing a college project I needed to make a Clist and get the
row which the user selected... the only function which I thought would
help is `gtk_clist_get_selection_info`, but I thought too
complicated... I don't know if I'm getting the right point, but am I
suppossed to get the mouse position when the user clicks on the Clist,
and use `gtk_clist_get_selection_info` to determine which row he
selected, is that it? If it is, I don't like it :-(

  Fortunately, I needed the Clist for single selection, what I did was
look int the GTK's source code and found that this did the job:

(int)((GtkCList *)(my_clist))->selection->data;

  to determine what row was selected (it would be ok for multiple
rows, since `selection` is a *Glist), but I get this message from GTK
Documentation, when checking for `struct GtkClist`: 

> This is the embodiment of the GtkCList widget. This structure contains
> only private data, and should be accessed only via the CList API.

  Wouldn't it be much better and easier on the app developers to have
a wrapper called, say, `gtk_clist_get_selection_(g)list`, or
something?


3) Also in this project I needed to get a window's dimension.. Easy I
thought, just go to GtkWindow docs, and look for
`gtk_window_get_current_dimension(int *width, int *height)' ... 
Unforunately I wasn't so lucky :-( 
After looking in the GTK's source code (again) I found out the:

window->allocation.width
window->allocation.height

  did what I wanted, but not always does it work... how do you guys do
to get a window's dimension? And why isn't there this an interface
function for this?


4) Right now am in contributing (only light patching) to a Gtk based
browser called Dillo (dillo.sourceforge.net) and I wanted to use a
`scrollable menu` to better it's interface. I've looked in the
gtk-devel-list archives and have seen two pacthes for such a menu, but
they're kind of old (October). Will there be a scrollable menu in GTK?
Is there an insterest on making an implementation on this?


5) I wanted something else that I think GTK also doesn't have, which
is an editable Clist (Table?). I wanted something like a CList or
Table which the user could click on any of the cells and start editing
that cell (like each cell being an editable entry, or something),
without having to open dialogs, or "poping up" a text-entry. Is there
anything like this?  Or an interest in implementing this?


  Well that's all for now... sorry for the long post and the newbie
questions (and the bad english ;-). I'm looking forward in possibly
helping out you guys (if I can...).

  Thanks for the attention, best regards to all,

--  
  Livio <livio linux ime usp br>