Re: scrollable gtk_table with header

["Tristan Van Berkom" <tvb gnome org>]

If you are refering to this:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkTree.html,
I would strongly advise against it, if you want the labels to follow the columns
just do it this way:

container { vbox { hbox { labels... }, scrolledwindow { table } } }

And then use GtkSizeGroup to make the labels size to the widgets in
the columns of the first row (you might do fancy stuff like give them
shadow-in/out edges using viewports and alignments...).

Note, if you are manipulating a potentially large dataset (arbitrary number
of rows in your table ?), then I strongly suggest biting the bullet and using
a treeview, treeview will allocate minimal resources for the task, while
allocated offscreen widgets still cost memory.

Why I strongly suggest you dont use GtkTree is because its long gone
deprecated, unsupported and wont be available in 3.0.

Cheers,
                       -Tristan


On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Rob Alblas <ralblas aimvalley nl> wrote:
>
> Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Rob Alblas <ralblas aimcom nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Is it possible to define a scrollable table, where the first row (acting
>>> as header) is fixed, i.e., is not part of the vertical scrollable part?
>>>
>>
>> yes, youll be using a layout like this:
>>
>> container { vbox { header label, scrolledwindow { table } } }
>>
>>
> I don't think this is the solution. The header should be part of  the
> table column; i.e, it should contain per-column text.
> Got another solution (not replied to the list) which should work: using
> gtk_tree to make a table instead of gtk_table.
>
> Thanks anyway,
> Rob.
>
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