Re: Gkt2::CellRendererScalar ??

[Chas Owens <alas widomaker com>]

Quoting muppet <scott asofyet org>:
> how useful do you think it would be to have a CellRenderer that draws
> perl
> scalars?
>
>   $model = Gtk2::ListStore->new ('Glib::Scalar');
>   $treeview = Gtk2::TreeView->new ($model);
>   $renderer = Gtk2::CellRendererScalar->new;
>   $column = Gtk2::TreeViewColumn->new_with_attributes ('a perl var',
>                                             $renderer, source => 0);
>
> would basically do the optimized version of
>
>   $model = Gtk2::ListStore->new ('Glib::Scalar');
>   $treeview = Gtk2::TreeView->new ($model);
>   $renderer = Gtk2::CellRendererText->new;
>   $treeview->insert_column_with_data_func (-1, 'a perl var',
> $renderer,
>                              sub { $_[2]->get ($_[3], 0) });
>
>
> overkill?  unnecessary?  fancy?  can't live without it?  what do you
> think?
>
> -- 
> muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>

Does changing the scalar change the text in the cell?  If so, then I think it
falls into "can't live without it".  If not, then I think it falls into "fancy,
but unnecessary".