On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > I'm actually very surprised that gtk does not offer an owner draw tree > widget item. That's something that is very important in alot of > applictions. >
Gtk is actually quite young; the fact that it was written for the Gimp shows. It is not yet what you might hope for every general-purpose application, though it's pretty nice most of the time. > The system was designed to run most effeciently with an owner draw tree > item displaying a portion of the data structure. > OK, I will think about how to do this. Perhaps a CTree hacked to query an external object for strings to display, instead of storing them itself. This would actually be fairly simple I guess, except that CTree is a big and complicated piece of code so it's easy to break something. Havoc
