Re: Searching a GtkTreeView

[Micheal Smith <xulfer cheapbsd net>]

On 03/18/10 06:29 PM, Carlos Pereira wrote:
> xulfer cheapbsd net wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to find a certain column containing a certain
> > string within a GtkTreeView/model. I know I can loop through each row 
> > and
> > search through the column manually, but this seems to be rather slow and
> > cumbersome. Is there a better way of accomplishing this?
> You could create your own hash table: pass your strings through a hash 
> function when you create the tree, then pass the string you want to 
> find through the same hash function, to quickly know where the string 
> is. Each entry in the hash table could point, for example, to the GTK 
> path of the node where each string is...
> Carlos
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That could work.  I've thought of similar tricks already myself.  I just 
figured that had to be the wrong way to go about it.  Is there nothing 
supplied by the API to support something like this?