To Jonathan - GtkTreeView (Brian Cameron)

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Brian said:
> 
> GtkTreeView experts:
> 
> I am now working to implement the ATK interfaces for the GtkTreeView
[...]
>    http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/atk/atk-atktable.html
> 
> Specifically talking about the implementation for GtkListStore:
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> 4. The functions get_caption, set_caption, get_column_description,
>    set_column_description, get_row_description, set_row_description,
>    get_summary, and set_summary
> 
>    A "caption" is intended to be a brief title of the table.
>    A "column_description" is a verbose description of each column.
>    A "row description" is a verbose description of each row.
>    A "summary" is a verbose description of the table.  Think of it
>       as like the "altname" of an image.  In real life it is sometimes
>       used to try to summarize the purpose & useful data that is in
>       the table.

Note that a "summary" is not necessarily just a text description, the
get_summary method returns an AtkObject which could infact be a
"summary table".

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> 6. get_column_extant_at, get_row_extant_at.

I think that's "extent", not "extant" ;-)

> 
>    These functions are to deal with HTML like tables where a cell can
>    "extend" into another row or column.  Like this (exciting text
>    graphics follow):
> 
>     #0 #1 #2 #3
>     ___________
>    |__|__|__|__|
>    |__|_____|__|   <- an example of a cell that extends columns #1 & #2
>    |__|__|__|__|
>    |  |__|__|__|   { an example of a cell that extends into two rows
>    |__|__|__|__|   { (in column #0)
> 
>    I don't believe GtkTreeView supports such cells.  Is this the case?
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> Thanks!
> 
> Brian
> 

regards,

-Bill

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Bill Haneman
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland