Re: How to make a simple selector item

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Robert Pearce <rob bdt-home demon co uk> writes:

> In several of the dialogs in one of my apps, I want to present the user 
> with a list of items from which (s)he can select several. In 'doze this 
> is called a listbox, and it's a very common element. But Gtk seems to be 
> missing it. Instead I am faced with customising a TreeView - outrageous 
> overkill and, frankly, a pain in the butt. According to the Gtkmm 
> documentation, there is a ListViewText class, which simplifies things a 
> bit. However, it does not exist in my installation (Gentoo, fully 
> updated).

You could unmask the newest version, that's probably easier than
fighting with the TreeView itself:

  http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gtkmm
  
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Ole Laursen
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