Re: [gtkmm] Manually selecting rows in Gtk::TreeView

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

try set_cursor(path...) method. you could get path at mouse x,y position 
in the tree

Simon Fuhrmann wrote:

> Hi hackers!
>
> I have a problem that deals with popup menus on Gtk::TreeView's.
> I have registerd a signal handler for 'signal_button_press_event()'
> of a TreeView like this:
>
>  this->filelist.signal_button_press_event().connect
>      (SigC::slot(*this, &cGuiMain::button_pressed), false);
>
> I use 'false' as second argument to 'connect()' because if I omit
> it (or set it to 'true') the TreeView will handle the right mouse
> click first and my signal handler will not be called.
>
> The 'cGuiMain::button_pressed()' signal handler will only return
> 'true' if it handles the right mouse button, otherwise it returns
> 'false', this allows the TreeView to handle all other mouse clicks.
>
> My TreeView uses multiple selections. So if someone presses the right
> mouse button and multiple rows are selected, I just want to display
> my popup menu immediately, which works. But if the selection consists
> of only one or none rows, I want to select the row the mouse is
> over before I popup my context menu. If I don't do that, the context
> menu will be created for the selected row, which must not be the one
> the mouse is over, and this is strange behavior in my opinion.
>
> How can I select the row the mouse is over from my
> 'cGuiMain::button_pressed()' signal handler?
>
> Thanks for help,
> Simon Fuhrmann <Nightslayer at gmx.de>
>
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