Re: Custom CellRenderers in IconView

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 22:45 +0100, John Spray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In GTK+, GtkIconView implements the GtkCellLayout interface,

Yes, they made GtkIconView implement GtkCellLayout at some point. We
couldn't make Gtk::IconView derive from Gtk::CellLayout without breaking
ABI.

>  thereby
> allowing addition of arbitrary cellrenderers.  Gtk::IconView does not
> appear to do the same.  Is it possible to use a custom CellRenderer in
> an IconView?

It should be possible by using the C API, using gobj() and wrap(). You
can treat a Gtk::IconView as a GtkCellLayout, for instance, by doing:
  GtkCellLayout* cell_layout = GTK_CELL_LAYOUT(iconview.gobj());

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