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
