Hello everyone, I am using GTK in my application for the plotting of scientific data [1]. Even though I really like GTK (well, actually its python bindings), I feel that the TreeView widget has a limitation that makes it hard to write any kind of application with scientific data, i.e. data in a tabular/matrix-like form. Of course it is possible to display such data in a TreeView; however it is not possible to select anything different than complete rows from that widget. I know from searching the web that there are implementations of widgets that allow the selection of columns, e.g. the sheet widget in gtk-extra [2] or the grid widget [3]. But I am not very confident in using gtk-extra, which does not compile very well, has a very unclear web-site and would be an extra (uncommon) dependency. The gtk grid widget is also no longer maintained [4]. I know that there is a request for such a widget once every few months on some gtk mailing list, and I know that there is also an entry in bugzilla [5]. Still I would like to ask you, if anybody is working on the problem? I am not a C-developer myself, but I could help with documentation and testing. Maybe it would be possible to just extend the current Gtk TreeView to allow arbitrary rectangular selections? Best regards, Niklas Volbers. ----- [1] http://sloppyplot.berlios.de [2] http://gtkextra.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.sicem.biz/personal/lgs/projects/gtkgrid/view_project [4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.python/6619 [5] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119085 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
