Re: Do TreeIters persist after foreach search ?

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Dave Howorth wrote:
> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> >   $iter = $model->get_iter($match_path); # always check retval
>
> I was trying to avoid this because I think it must do a second tree walk
> to reach the node? Which shouldn't be necessary.

It's not a full walk of the tree, so it's not heinously expensive, but you are
correct that it is not free.


> But I've switched to this technique at the moment unless anybody can
> suggest anything better.

See my other post in this thread.  (I should've read the whole thread before
replying...)


> At the moment the search is way too slow. I'm just about to profile it
> to see whether I can fix it or whether I need to do my main tree
> handling outside of the gtk tree model and just use the gtk model as a
> display slave.

That path often leads to madness involving dual-data-structure synchronization
and memory wastage.  You may wish to investigate creating your own TreeModel
implementation in that case, so that the TreeView will effectively display
your native data structure.


> I guess another alternative might be to reimplement foreach's tree walk
> myself which would lose the function call overhead and will probably
> avoid whatever weirdness is messing with the stamp.

I doubt that would save much, honestly.

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