Re: Obtaining a TreeModel::Row from a TreePath

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>]

Chris Vine wrote:
> On Saturday 09 April 2005 16:11, Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to build list of data objects associated with a row in a tree
> > view, based on the current selection.
> > I know I can get the selected rows by calling
> > TreeSelection::get_selected_rows(), but despite its name, this method
> > returns a list of TreePathS, and not a list of TreeModel::Rows.
> >
> > So how can I obtain the rows from the path objects?
>
>
> To convert a path to an iterator, use Gtk::TreeModel::get_iter(const 
> Gtk::Treemodel::Path&), and then derefence the iterator (a row is just a 
> dereferenced iterator).
>
> However, you probably want to convert all the paths to rows with a suitable 
> functor using Gtk::TreeSelection::selected_for_each_path().  (As an example 
> you can see: 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/efax-gtk/efax-gtk/src/selected_rows_handle.h?rev=1.4
> and
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/efax-gtk/efax-gtk/src/selected_rows_handle.cpp?rev=1.3
>
> Chris
>
> Chris

Thanks Chris, that's what I need.

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Matthias Kaeppler