Re: Gtk{Tree,List} replacement proposal

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Guy Harris <gharris@flashcom.net> writes: 
> I'm planning, at some point, to make a modified version of the CList for
> use in Ethereal, which would *not* store any of the strings displayed in
> the columns; instead, to display a row, it'd, for each column to be
> displayed, call a function associated with the CList, passing it a
> pointer associated with the row and an indication of what column was to
> be displayed, and get back a string to draw in that column.  This would:
> 

This is the whole point of the model-view architecture for a tree
widget - maybe you could be a beta tester for Jonathan's tree instead
of fooling with CList...

It's true that you have to subclass the model object (this will be a
lot easier in object-oriented language bindings than in C of course).

Havoc