On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:52 -0800, Ian Puleston wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Emmanuele Bassi > > > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 04:05 -0800, 198710 wrote: > > > "GtkCList has been deprecated since GTK+ 2.0 and should not be used > > > > so I'd suggest you read the documentation > > for the TreeView - there's not much you cannot do with it. > > That's true, but GtkTreeView is pretty heavy duty and overkill for a lot of > (most?) purposes. I've used it quite a lot now and every time I have to go > back to the docs and look at other examples to work out what the heck all > the models, iters, paths etc. are doing. It would be nice if we had some > simpler standardized widgets that implemented simple list views (like > GtkList and maybe GtkCList, although I don't know that one) that could use > GtkTreeView behind the scenes, acting as a font-end to it and providing a > nice simple to use API. a SimpleList widget, wrapping most of the TreeView MVC implementation in a simple API is already planned and developed by Kris - also taking into account the similar API implemented by high level languages bindings like Python and Perl; as soon as he finishes it, he'll send it to the gtk-devel-list for review. hopefully, in time for 2.16. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
