Re: TreeView: Multiple selection inefficient?

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 12:47 +0200, Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
>
> > Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> >
> > > You don't have to call foreach() on each row. But if you really want to
> > > examine each selection whenever the selection changes, what's the
> > > alternative?
> > >
> > > Hopefully you more often want to just know the first and last selected
> > > rows, or if anything is selected at all. Then you wouldn't have to call
> > > foreach() on them all.
> >
> > That's correct, but how can I achieve this? It would be enough for me to 
> > only know the first and last row which is among the selection. Maybe 
> > even only the last.
>
>
> get_selected_rows().

This returns a Glib::ListHandle. Although it is claimed that these 
behave like an STL container, I can neither decrement an iterator nor 
use reverse iterators. How am I supposed to get the last element from 
this list?


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Matthias Kaeppler