Re: [CList] Making a CList user-modifiable

["Jean-Christophe Berthon" <jean-christophe berthon cgey com>]

Thanks a lot Charlie,
It's working pretty fine. I'm going to try to tune it a bit now (the entry
is a bit big in comparison to the cells...).
Thanks again,


Best regards,
---
Jean-Christophe Berthon

Cap Gemini -- Ernst & Young
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Skill Aerospace -- Image Quality
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Schmidt" <ishamael themes org>
To: "Jean-Christophe Berthon" <jberthon capgemini fr>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CList] Making a CList user-modifiable


> -
>
> Well, the best thing i could come up with for making an entry editable,
> but not making it editable right away (so that you could still drag and
> reorder) and not making it editable on what should be a normal click to
> select was to add a timeout.  So basically, when the ProntoList recieves
> a 'button_press_event' it checks the button that was pressed (and its
> hard coded to button #2), then loads a timeout to show the entrybox.
>
> static gboolean list_button_press(GtkWidget *list,GdkEventButton
> *event,ProntoList *pl)
> {
> if (pl->reparented) {
> gdk_window_hide(pl->entry->window);
> }
>
> if (event->button == 2) {
> gtk_object_set_data(GTK_OBJECT(pl),"eventbutton",event);
> pl->timeout =
> gtk_timeout_add(1000,(GtkFunction)list_timeout,pl);
> }
>
> return TRUE;
> }
>
> Its pretty bad, imho.  But it does what i wanted it to.  It would be easy
> enough to modify to add a constructor that takes a 'button' argument for
> which button should show the entry window, or to specify a timeout
> interval, besides the hardcoded values there.
>
>
> As for gtkclist.c & GTK_CELL_WIDGET, the idea was that the Gtk+ authors
> started to write widget support for CList cells, but never finished it.
> They stopped at GtkCell (text) and GtkCellPixmap.  There is a
> GtkCellWidget structure, with what (i think) you would need to write the
> routines, they just never bothered I guess.
>
> Anyways, I hope this is some help, and if you've any more questions
> please do ask or pop on irc, Im almost always available in #pronto on
> irc.openprojects.net.
>
>
> From: Jean-Christophe Berthon
> Subject: Re: [CList] Making a CList user-modifiable
> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:52:08 +0200
>
>
> > Hy,
> >
> >  I've check out your solution and it is quite interesting. But I have a
small
> >  question that the source code didn't manage to enlight me:
> >
> >  1) About Pronto_List:
> >  I've try to create a pronto_list (and it seems to work because I can
see it)
> >  But I didn't succeed to edit a cell. I've try to read the code of
> >  pronto_list and I saw that an entry box should be shown on the
"activate"
> >  event (well at least that what I thought after reading that, but I'm
still
> >  too new to gtk to be sure of what I say). But nothing happends, and I
also
> >  didn't see any "activate" event in the clist... Am I thinking wrong
about
> >  the implementation? Do I miss something? (down follow my code example)
> >
> >
> >  PS: I've looked at the gtkclist.c file and indeed I saw the code you
wrote,
> >  but I didn't really get what was exactly this GTK_CELL_WIDGET... And so
I
> >  didn't really know what kind of code should be put there... (some kind
of
> >  conception idea...) In fact I didn't really manage to understand what
was
> >  this type of data exactly doing. Maybe if you can enlight me on that, I
can
> >  do something...
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >  ---
> >  Jean-Christophe Berthon
> >
> >
> >
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: "Charlie Schmidt" <ishamael themes org>
> >  To: <gtk-list gnome org>
> >  Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:01 AM
> >  Subject: Re: [CList] Making a CList user-modifiable
> >
> >
> >  > -
> >  >
> >  > youre not the only one who has asked, and though im rather embarrased
by
> >  > the code, you could take a look at
> >  > http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~cbschmid/pronto_widgets/ im willing to
> >  > answer any questions you may have about them.
> >  >
> >  > alternatively, someone could finish this part (and others) of
gtkclist.c
> >  >
> >  > static void
> >  > set_cell_contents (GtkCList    *clist,
> >  > {
> >  >
> >  > [...]
> >  >
> >  >     case GTK_CELL_PIXTEXT:
> >  >       old_text = GTK_CELL_PIXTEXT (clist_row->cell[column])->text;
> >  >       old_pixmap = GTK_CELL_PIXTEXT
(clist_row->cell[column])->pixmap;
> >  >       old_mask = GTK_CELL_PIXTEXT (clist_row->cell[column])->mask;
> >  >       break;
> >  >     case GTK_CELL_WIDGET:
> >  >       /* unimplimented */
> >  >       break;
> >  >     default:
> >  >       break;
> >  >
> >  > anyways, i hope this helps.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > From: Jean-Christophe Berthon
> >  > Subject: [CList] Making a CList user-modifiable
> >  > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 10:21:18 +0200
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > > Hello,
> >  > >
> >  > >  I've sent an email (subject "About CList" 5th July) about the
CList and
> >  if
> >  > >  they were a possibility for the user to modify an element in the
same
> >  way as
> >  > >  with a spreadsheet (like gnumeric or excel).
> >  > >  If this object cannot do it, it there a workaround? Or tips? Or
maybe
> >  > >  another similar object which can do it.
> >  > >
> >  > >  I've tried to have a look at gnumeric but it seems that they built
> >  there own
> >  > >  spreadsheet, drawing each lines, etc. I've pitily not enough time
to
> >  think
> >  > >  of something similar. I'd need an already built widget doing that
kind
> >  of
> >  > >  work.
> >  > >
> >  > >  Thanks a lot in advance for any answer. Every tips or suggestion
will
> >  be
> >  > >  really useful,
> >  > >  Have a nice day.
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >  Best regards,
> >  > >  ---
> >  > >  Jean-Christophe Berthon
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >
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