Re: TreeView with right-click

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:51 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm banging my head against a wall trying to implement the infamous
> TreeView right-click.
> 
> I understand how and what the signal handlers are doing, and I seem to
> be getting screwed because TreeView insists on returning true from its
> signal handling (Thus preventing signal handlers to do anything
> afterwards). 
> 
> Other than break down and inhert from TreeView to provide a selection
> update, is there anyway to accomplish this?
> 
> I spent some time looking through MARC to see if this had come up
> before and I can't find an answer, all I managed to find was this
> message: 
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gtkmm&m=108664230014661&w=2
> 
> About someone that re-implemented the selection update. Which is
> silly. 
> 
> Anyway, just wondering if anyone had any ideas.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89780
"Treeview: signal_button_press_event needs connect_notify()"

So you need to either override the default signal handler or use
connect_notify() instead of connect(). If this isn't mentioned in the
reference documentation and book already, then it should be.

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