Re: [gtkmm] TreeView Design

[MHL Schulze t-online de (Martin Schulze)]

Am 19.07.2002 19:01 schrieb(en) Jarek Dukat:
> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 13:17, Daniel Evison wrote:
> >
> > It is possible to separate the dependency.  It seems the main issue
> comes
> > down to the fact that the TreeView class requires the data to be in a
> > certain type of model, and that the information must be copied by value
> into
> > that model.  I think it would be better if it could interface with data
> in
> > various formats (including standard C++ containers), through functors,
> > functions, etc.   It seems to me like a simpler approach too (though I
> don't
> > understand the inner workings of gtk and its assumptions and
> constraints).
>
> You are mostly right, but you seem to forget that Gtkmm is just a
> wrapper around Gtk+. Because of Gtk+ design we can't really do much more
> than current API does.

But this shouldn't keep us from supporting Daniel on his way to develop an
even more general interface within the current solution that fullfills the
requirements he described!

  Martin