[Glade-users] newbie question: trouble using tree view column editor

[Anthony Dardis]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:13:12 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom  
<tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Anthony Dardis <adardis at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I'm in the middle of Tadej Borovšak's excellent tutorial; I've reached  
>> the
>> stage of adding display components to the tree view. I can add tree view
>> columns using the tree view editor. But when I attempt to add renderers  
>> to
>> the columns (the step in the tutorial beginning with "Now right-click
>> newly created column and select "Add child Spin item"" I don't seem to  
>> be
>> able to. Right-click on the column (in the Hierarchy view) brings  
>> forward
>> a dark-background box over the field that says "Column", and that's all.
>> If I repeatedly do this, I can see that there is a combo box pull-down
>> drawn under it, just a flash before/after the box appears, but I don't
>> have access to the combo box.
>>
>> (a) am I trying to add the renderer in the wrong way?
>> (b) if the right way, can I make this work?
>
> That's a dropdown menu that is rendering wrong on the Mac
> for some reason.
>
> Sorry I cant exactly fix that build for you now, you might try
> just clicking on the box and creating a random item type and
> then change the type from the right-hand editor.
>
> Or... try building the glade-3-8 branch on your mac... see
> if it fixes anything (maybe with more recent GTK+ things
> are improved... the bundle you downloaded will be packaging..
> I guess GTK+ 2.16 or 2.18).
>
> Cheers,
>         -Tristan

Thanks. It doesn't permit creating any item type at all, so I guess I  
can't go that way. I'll try getting a newer GTK+ than 2.14, and then maybe  
try building glade-3.8

--Tony