Re: Displaying a "hierarchy" of classes in a TreeView

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

José Alburquerque wrote:
> Hi everyone.  I'm new to gtkmm though I think I understand the basics of 
> gtkmm from the "Programming with gtkmm" tutorial.  However, I'm really 
> stumped at implementing a TreeView.  As I understand it it needs a 
> TreeModel both of which ListStore and TreeStore are.
>
> For the project I'm developing I believe I'd need something like a 
> TreeStore for the model because the rows in the intended TreeView will 
> have children.  Here's my question:
>
> I've developed a series of "hierarchical" classes (not in the sense of 
> inheritance, but in the sense of one being a child of another, etc.) and 
> the hierarchy can be somewhat intricate and moderately deep.
>
> What I'm trying to do is display the hierarchy in a TreeView (by class 
> name or a description of the class), but it's difficult for me to wrap 
> my mind around what I need to do.  I notice that the TreeStore::create() 
> method requires TreeModel::ColumnRecord, but what's confusing me is that 
> my classes are not string classes so I don't know how I could represent 
> them using the ColumnRecord.
>
> Might any of you illuminate me a little as to how I might go about 
> displaying my hierarchy of classes in a TreeView?  I'd really appreciate 
> it.  Thanks.
>
> -Jose
>   

I'm sorry, I went further into the programming guide and the portion on 
the actual TreeView (not the model) goes into CellRenderers.  I think 
this is what I was looking for.  Sorry about that and thanks.

-Jose