On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 11:23 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Hi, > > I have an application with a rather long list currently rendered as a > GtkTreeView within a GtkScrolledWindow. (For context, it's a list of > languages supported by an OS installer.) I have had user requests for > this to be rendered as a newspaper-column list instead, since the number > of items in the list is such that it should easily fit on one screen > that way and save users from having to scroll to find their language. In > other words, I'd like it to look something like this: > > Item 1 Item 6 Item 11 > Item 2 Item 7 Item 12 > Item 3 Item 8 Item 13 > Item 4 Item 9 Item 14 > Item 5 Item 10 Item 15 > > As far as I can see there's no support for this in GTK. I could probably > do it with a custom GtkTreeView that figures out how many rows will be > visible and does some appropriate balancing of columns, but I suspect > there will be plenty of gotchas involved. Google has been of no help, so > before diving in and trying to do it myself I thought I'd ask: does > anyone have sample code that does this already? I have a container like this in Glom for Glom's details view. It's a horribly implemented horrible hack (and C++) but it kind of works: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glom/trunk/glom/utility_widgets/flowtable.h?view=markup Googling just found me this C# widget which seems very similar, though it wraps items in rows inside columns rather than just rows in columns: http://www.medsphere.org/projects/widgets/wiki/FBox I asked about it before and was told that it needs Height-For-Width layout to do properly, which makes sense. Height-For-Width (or Natural Size) seems to be close to going into GTK+. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-April/msg00233.html Luckily Mathias Hasselman (who is doing the height-for-width stuff) works for Openismus now so maybe he'll do a proper container for us in future. -- murrayc@xxxxxxxxxxx www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
