Code should be attached now. PG On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 20:25, Peter Gasper wrote: > I wrote a custom cell renderer. It works but the problem is that the > widget used in edit mode was significantly wider than the normal(not > being edited) cell display width. Not only that but there are several of > these in the same treeview, so if each column was wide enough to display > the whole edit widget there wouldn't be enough room. > > I thought of two solutions. One, somehow have the edit widget shown over > the neighboring cells (no idea how to do this). Or two, when a cell is > being edited, resize the width of the column to accommodate the whole > edit widget. This I did, and it was pretty straightforward. > > But there is one bug. The column is resized alright. But the edit widget > doesn't expand to take up the entire space, rather, it just fills the > original column width. However if you click in the empty space to the > right of the edit widget in the now larger column the program restarts > the edit process and the edit widget completely fills the column. > Likewise if you don't reset the column to a smaller size after the first > edit the edit widget is correctly displayed (taking up the entire > column) the second time the column is edited. > > > Attached is an example I derived from the attachment at the following > address: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2003-January/msg00107.html > > The code to accomplish the resizing is in Comb_CellRenderer::on_edited() > and Comb_CellRenderer::start_editing_vfunc() in renderer.cc. > > > My only possible solution so far is to try and catch a signal or function call > which happens when someone starts editing a cell (via enter or clicking) and then > resize the column there so that it is resized after someone initiates a cell edit > but before the cell renderer is notified of this. But I haven't > found one that works yet. > > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list -- Peter Gasper <pgasper designadvantage com>
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