Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Plugins: How do I get selected entry in source?

["Jarek Zgoda" <jarek zgoda gmail com>]

On 5/6/07, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 13:14 +0200, Jarek Zgoda wrote:
> > I was looking through sources of Python-based plugins for RB and I
> > didn't found any, that operates on selected entry (not "currently
> > playing"). How do I get selected entry? In PyGTK this is done usually
> > by using gtk.TreeSelection from tree_view.get_selection(), but I
> > cann't find any pointer to this TreeView.
>
> Sources have a "entry view" which is the track list, an instance of the
> class rb.EntryView (which is derived from gtk.TreeView). You can get it
> with "view = source.get_entry_view()" and then use it like a normal
> TreeView.
>
>
> rb.EntryView has a method designed for getting the list of selected
> entries (remember, there may be more than one) - get_selected_entries().
> So you can do things like:
>
> for entry in source.get_entry_view().get_selected_entries():
>     do_something (entry)

Thanks for help. I wish I had something like "Rhythmbox API for plugin
writers"...

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Jarek Zgoda
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