Murray, I look away for a second and baby widgets start springing up everywhere...
Anyway, if I get a chance later, I'll take a look and maybe write up a quick demo if one doesn't exist already. Paul On 12/2/06, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 08:20 -0600, Paul Davis wrote: > > Eric, > > > > > TreeViews are a real pain. > > > > Indeed they are. And from my experience, this is one of the hardest > > parts of the api to deal with. The main problem seems to stem from the > > fact that the developers seemed to try and make the TreeView et al > > classes as abstract as possible so that you use them to design any > > type of widget you want. With this abstract implementation comes a bit > > of difficulty in making it do things that seem as though they should > > be rather simple. > > The new ListViewText widget offers a very simple API for the TreeView: > http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1ListViewText.html > > However, it's probably too simple for most situations. I haven't heard > of anyone actually using it yet. > > > As for the excel type of functionality, to get a single cell selected, > > you may want to look at the CellEditable class and see if thats not > > more of what you need. > > > > The only excel-esque ability I can think of that might not be able to > > be directly achieved is selecting a column vs. selecting a row. > > > > I'm guessing, to achieve full spreadsheet capabilities you'd need to > > implement a custom TreeModel and TreeView that allow for these types > > of operations. > > -- > Murray Cumming > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.murrayc.com > www.openismus.com > > _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
