Re: Setting an iter from an ID value

[Zach Bean <zb forty2 com>]

Quoting Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>:
 
> This works, but doesn't seem like a very economical way of doing
> things.  I've thought about getting the string field from the
> database and using $widget->get_child->set_text($string) but
> that also seems kinda dodgy, and won't work if there are
> duplicate strings ( not that there should be, but anyway
> ... )
>
> Is there a better way of doing this?

I don't think you have too many options.  If you can come up with an
index of the item you want to select, you can use
$model->iter_nth_child(undef, $index) to get the iter you need.
$index starts from 0... I think.  

The solution I'm working towards for my applications is a custom
TreeModel (I seem to be doing a lot of those recently... this will
be my third, when I get around to it).  Unfortunately, it won't be
a viable option for a while yet, if at all, because it requires
a patched Gtk2.  (If anyone's interested, more discussion about
this will likely be coming to the list in the next couple of days.)

Zach

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-- 
And I say, Give me back my memory, or I'll rip you into three boy scouts
and a watchband!
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