Re: Column data in nautilus list-view

[Dimitri Benin <dimitri benin googlemail com>]

Am Freitag, den 24.10.2008, 11:47 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson: 
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 01:04 +0800, Dimitri Benin wrote:
> > Hi Guys!
> > 
> > I'm currently working on an improvement to DND behaviour in nautilus
> > list view.
> > I have a question: is it possible to find out which columns are
> > currently visible in nautilus (list view) and to find out their x
> > coords? The problem is that it is definitively not possible to use the
> > gtktreeview methods as they don't provide the correct coords and
> > visibility for the current implemetation in nautilus (due to some kind
> > of implementation, which I don't completely understand yet).
> > There are some static functions in fm-list-view.c which are doing
> > exactly what I need but I didn't want to use this module because I'm
> > currently working on nautilus-tree-view-drag-dest which is used by both
> > fm-list-view and fm-tree-view modules and thus is more generic than the
> > fm-list-view module.
> > Of course I could implement the needed functionality in fm-list-view,
> > but it really would fit into nautilus-tree-view-drag-dest and the last
> > thing I want is to split this code into two more or less unrelated
> > modules.
> > I would be very grateful if I could get some help or suggestions how to
> > approach this problem. Thanks!
> 
> Which functions in fm-list-view.c are you talking about?
> get_visible_columns()/apply_columns_settings()? That just sets the
> visible columns on the treeview. So, the list of all visible columns set
> from that should be gettable with gtk_tree_view_get_columns() 
> 
> Coordinates for a column can be gotten with
> gtk_tree_view_get_cell_area(). Just pass NULL for the path.
> 
> 
Hi Alex.

Thanks for your answer but it seems like I've solved my problems, I had
a hack in my code which was the issue for my problems, it works now.
Maybe you've already noticed, I'm the guy who's working on the bug
101938. I have another question according this bug: when we DND
something and the file name column is not visible, what behaviour should
we get? Should DND work like if my patch wouldn't exist, should we be
able to DND on the first column or do we want to copy the file to the
window root dir?
And for the case that the name column is not the first column, should we
highlight only this column or all the columns beginning with the first?

Regards,

Dimi