Re: TreeView performance/simplicity

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:22, Bruce Alderson wrote:
> Anyway, I thought I'd let you know that I've been playing with a file
> system front-end, with an instant-messenger sort of interface (like
> Dashboard, but for managing documents/blog entries).  In some simple
> tests, I've found that the TreeView can be populated with several
> hundred items, in a way that performs much better than I expected
> (milliseconds) .. and this is from file -> hash -> tree store.  I was
> thinking that the 'dual' data store would bork performance, but testing
> proved me very wrong -- perl, gtk2-perl bindings, and gtk2 perform well
> together.  This is using Gtk2/Gtk2-GladeXML from a month-old CVS build.

not that it will really affect your situation, but there were some
recent commits to the 2.3 branch that will drastically increase
performance on tree/list view under certain circumstances, namely when
all of the rows are going to be equal height: 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-December/msg00127.html

> I'm also thinking that I'll put together another example program that
> shows how to use a TreeView/TreeStore with Gtk2/Gtk2-GladeXML.  I'll 
> look at adding details to the documentation when I'm back from holidays
> next week (unless someone else is working on that), as the questions
> I've had (and answered) were not in my last build of the docs.

examples are always welcome.

-rm