Re: [gtkmm] widget advice

[Eric Newman <enewman ati com>]

Why not just a Table of Buttons with ReliefStyle RELIEF_NONE? You could
alter their backgrounds when clicked. Do they need more functionality
than that?

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:59, Tim Flechtner wrote:
> hello all,
>    i'm writing to solicit advice on which widget to use for an 
> application that i have to port from an older widget set to gtkmm-2.0. 
> its probably worth mentioning that my job here is not to 'improve' the 
> current interface, merely to replicate it, for better or worse.
>    the display consists of around twenty rows in six columns.  the user 
> will click on the different cells of each row to initiate different 
> actions.  i need to be able to hilight individual cells as they are 
> clicked on, without the whole row being highlighted, and call a function 
> of a model object associated with the view object for that cell.
>    i had intended to use the TreeView widget, which offers a lot of nice 
> features 'for free', such as rearranging the order of columns.  a couple 
> of days ago, Daniel Elstner pointed out that cell-based interaction was 
> perhaps an abuse of TreeView:
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Elstner wrote:
> 
>     Ahh.  What you are trying to do is using TreeView as a spreedsheet.
>     But the problem is, it's simply not a spreedsheet.  A sign of that is
>     that signal_activate() works with rows, not cells.
> 
> 
> 
>    which has made me wonder if i should try a different approach.  the 
> three alternatives i've come up with thus far are:
> 
> a. use TreeView, hack it to behave as i need
> b. use one TreeView for column, tie their scrolling together
> c. find some other, more appripriate widget.
> 
> i don't see any likely candidates for option c from amongst the widgets 
> documented at 
> http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/reference/html/group__Widgets.html. 
> any suggestions would be greatfully accepted.
> 
> thanks!
> -tim
> 
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