[Glade-users] Glade, List or Tree View, and deprecated Columned List

[Damon Chaplin]

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 07:08, Neil Zanella wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I notice that the GTK+ "Columned List" is deprecated
> in favor of the "List or Tree View". However, when I
> add a "List or Tree View" with Glade I cannot seem
> to set the column names in the same way as I can
> with a "Columned List". Can I do this from Glade.
> I am currently running Glade 2.5, which I just
> updated on my Fedora Core 2 distro with the
> "yum update glade2" command. So, how do
> I set the column names for a "List or Tree VIew"
> which I want to make behave just like a "Columned List"?

The new GtkTreeView is much more complicated than the old GtkCList, and
unfortunately it is not easy to set things like column names and sizes
within Glade.


> Another related question is, how do I set the width
> of the "Columned List" in Glade. It seems that Glade
> seems to let you drag them to whatever widths you want
> but doesn't seem to let you set them to a precise number
> of pixels programmatically. Any ideas?

You can edit the XML file directly.

(The Control+click thing on the palette is documented in the latest
manual, by the way.)

Damon