Re: Gtk window.show() (maybe just c++ related)

["Paul Davis" <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

Murray,

I look away for a second and baby widgets start springing up everywhere...

Anyway, if I get a chance later, I'll take a look and maybe write up a
quick demo if one doesn't exist already.

Paul

On 12/2/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 08:20 -0600, Paul Davis wrote:
> > Eric,
> >
> > > TreeViews are a real pain.
> >
> > Indeed they are. And from my experience, this is one of the hardest
> > parts of the api to deal with. The main problem seems to stem from the
> > fact that the developers seemed to try and make the TreeView et al
> > classes as abstract as possible so that you use them to design any
> > type of widget you want. With this abstract implementation comes a bit
> > of difficulty in making it do things that seem as though they should
> > be rather simple.
>
> The new ListViewText widget offers a very simple API for the TreeView:
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1ListViewText.html
>
> However, it's probably too simple for most situations. I haven't heard
> of anyone actually using it yet.
>
> > As for the excel type of functionality, to get a single cell selected,
> > you may want to look at the CellEditable class and see if thats not
> > more of what you need.
> >
> > The only excel-esque ability I can think of that might not be able to
> > be directly achieved is selecting a column vs. selecting a row.
> >
> > I'm guessing, to achieve full spreadsheet capabilities you'd need to
> > implement a custom TreeModel and TreeView that allow for these types
> > of operations.
>
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