Re: GtkTreeView with huge amount of rows; dynamic data source?

[Greg Breland <gbreland mozillanews org>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:10, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Dnia 13-01-2005, czw o godzinie 10:46 -0600, Greg Breland napisał:
> > I don't think there is a simple way to determine how many rows a
>
> (just to nitpick, it's TreeView doing display, not liststore)

I throw terms around with abandon don't I.

> One possible (if slightly hacky) solution I see here is to implement
> dummy cellrenderer (let's call it FetchRenderer) whose only purpose
> would be to mark currently displayed rows (ie, when your FetchRenderer
> is asked to render(), all it does is fetch appropriate rows from
> database). 

Glad to hear this suggestion.  I mentioned the same idea in another
email, but it was a total guess based on little information.  You
suggesting it independently of my email leads me to believe that there
is some merit to the approach and worth looking into.