Hi, I have developed a tree model which takes a long time to find all its root nodes. Short batches of 50-100 execute in negligible time, but it will be operate in cases with upwards of 100k root nodes.
It seems as though the first thing GtkTreeView does on receiving the model is to iterate through every root node, calling iter_has_child and iter_next for each until iter_next returns FALSE. This then leads to my question - does anyone think it possible to modify GtkTreeView to give it much lazier population? To display itself, surely it only needs however many rows are visible .. and even these could be left blank and drawn as its queries return. My initial instinct is that the only issue would be the scroll bar going nuts, which I'm sure could be solved with an tree_model_estimate_n_children or something stupid. Can anyone advise me on if this seems like a good/bad plan, or a problem that's been tackled before? Thanks for any help Sam _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
