Re: TreeView performance/simplicity

[Bruce Alderson <mx warpedvisions org>]

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, muppet wrote:
[snip]
> how does it do over time?  does your process get sluggish after several
> hours? (have you ever left it running that long?)  have you found any
> memory leaks?  (i've recently grown concerned about string columns...)

I haven't tested it for very long yet, and it's fairly static now
(startup -> load cache -> hash -> treestore).  I've been trying to
connect it to my file-system monitor lib, to update the internal
filelist (and also the treestore), but holiday interruptions are slowing
me down a bit.

[snip]
> personally, i use SimpleList purely for putting one-column lists into
> dialogs with very little code.  imagine the kind of list where you just
> want to present a selection of about fifty or a hundred things for the
> user to select, and when the user clicks "Ok", you find out what was
> selected.  SimpleList does that in just a few lines of code, rather than
> a lot of MVC boilerplate.

Yeah, it's nice to replace boilerplate in those simple situations, and
SimpleList does it really well.  I was avoiding learning the TreeStore
(etc.) out of my lazy/retarded nature -- thinking it was somehow more
complicated.  Of course, it's not.

> are you using the per-object manpages at all?  i know there's not a lot
> of actual prose in them, but i still find them helpful, even when
> writing C programs.

Yes, the pod pages are useful for finding function names, which can be
correlated to the Gtk+ C man pages.  Usually I have to try a few things,
or grep some examples to find specific solutions (like: "How do I make
an expandable list in a TreeView?") ... but the answers are all there,
given a bit of searching, even if it means finding some C-source that
shows an example of what I'm trying to do.   Best of all, things seem to
work the way I expect, and map well to the other bindings (and native C
interfaces).


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Bruce Alderson <mx warpedvisions org>
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