Re: rows-reordered signal not emitted

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Florian Schaefer said:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:57:15 -0400 (EDT), muppet said:
>
> [...]
> > Rather than use the TreeModel as a synchronized copy of another model (the
> > database), why not create a custom TreeModel which merely proxies the
> > TreeModel interface to the database?  It's more work up front, but it sounds
> > like it would alleviate a lot of your problems.
>
> That really sounds like a lot of work, apart from the problem that I've
> absolutely no idea how to create a custom TreeModel.
>
> > (i'm assuming that the ordering is an inherent part of your data.  if it's
> > not, you may consider abstracting it out. ;-)
>
> Well, my names are the foldernames of an email programm and I need a
> possibility to reorder the folders.
>
> Can I perhaps solve my problem with the "normal" dnd functions drag_*?
> Though I have to admit that the whole drag and drop handling handling is
> still alien to me.
>
> I've got the impression that the best thing to do would be to save the
> whole tree again when closing the application.

this may/should prove helpful, if you haven't already run across it. it's for
C, but it translates without too many differences.

Gtk Drag and Drop tutorial:
   http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-dragangdrop.html

-rm