Re: [gtkmm] The TextView blues..

[Matthew Walton <mxw00u cs nott ac uk>]

I believe you'll find that the documentation explicitly states that you
cannot select a row which is not expanded in the TreeView. You can,
however, force a parent to expand from code, so you may have to resort
to that :-(

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 22:19, Kjell Irgens wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am trying to use TextModel/TextView, but I am having some problems.  I
> have read through the documentation and the postings here the last 6 months
> without finding the answers I wanted.  I hope someone can help me.
> 
> I have a multiselect TreeView which looks simular to this when the first
> entry is expanded:
> 
> V  Parent text 1
>     Child text 1
>     Child text 2
> |> Parent text 2
> |> Parent text 3
> 
> If I select one of the parent rows, I want all the child nodes under this
> to be selected automatically.  This now works if the parent row already is
> expanded, otherwise not.  The problem is that if I expand the parent row, all
> the children under that row appear as deselected.
> 
> Also, if I unexpand a parent row where there are selected children, these
> seem to be unselected automatically.  This is not what I expected  would
> happen, can it be avoided?
> 
> I would also like to have a popup menu when I press e.g. mouse button 3 over
> a row.  I can make this work by following the description in
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2002-November/msg00146.html
> But I need to know the row over which the mouse button was clicked, can this
> information be found somehow?
-- 
Matthew Walton <mxw00u cs nott ac uk>