Re: Help creating a horizontal GtkList (can't find info anywhere!!!)

[Daniel Brockman <drlion deepwood net>]

Hi Crypto,

<crypto_stonelock sympatico ca> writes:

> I use a bunch of GtkLists to create arrow browsable menus.

I'm sorry, but what are ``arrow browsable menus''?

> Some are labels, some editable entries. I'm currently porting an old
> DOS program, written in 88, to Windows.

Ouch.  :-)

> One of the menu's in this old program is horizontal for many different
> reasons (one of em being that it doesn't look good vertical), and so I
> was hoping to keep the spirit of the horizontal menu going :).

I'd be interested to hear more about this, as I can't quite imagine how
these ``horizontal menus'' look.  I assume the're not like like ordinary
menus, since you're not using an ordinary horizontal menu bar.  Could
you perhaps show a screenshot, or maybe an ASCII-art rendering?

> Any idea on how I could accomplish this?

First of all, note that GtkList is deprecated in favor of GtkTreeView,
meaning that the former should not be used in newly written code.
Unfortunately, GtkTreeView does not support horizontal orientation
either, so this doesn't help you with your problem.

I'm sorry that I don't know enough about GTK+ to be able to recommend a
solution, but I suppose you could try either subclassing GtkListView, or
creating your own widget based on it.  I haven't looked into it myself,
but it appears swapping x and y -- horizontal and vertical -- throughout
the code for GtkListView should not be that hard.

> ps: how do you keep posting in the same thread? I tried answering to
> your email but it didn't work.

It did work, in the sense that I got your mail.  I'm sorry I didn't
answer until now.

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Regards,

-- 
Daniel Brockman
drlion deepwood net