[Glade-users] Using Treeviews

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:57:58 -0500
Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 13:51 -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:06:22 -0500
> > "Zach Tibbitts" <zach at collegegeek.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > When using a Treeview in Glade (3.1.4) is there any way to define
> > > the columns, etc. within Glade itself?
> > 
> > No, there isn't. Part of the reason is that the definition of the
> > data in the treeview is not necessarily the same as the database that
> > 'feeds' the view (the gtktreemodel).
> > 
> > So you may have a treemodel with more (or even less) columns than the
> > view, and Glade only lets you define the treeview, not the model.
> 
> Also, if anyone feels like arguing the relevence of supporting
> model data in a GUI designer - I'm all ears :)
> (cross-posting to glade-devel for that reason).

Hi Tristan.

Defining the model data in the GUI is tempting, but I doubt if it is
entirely appropiate or useful. The interface is likely to become
complicated, for example permitting conditional attributes... 

_Not_ having all possibilities available in the GUI is, IMHO,
counter-productive, as reliance on a GUI would mean less frequent
'manual' use...

John