Displaying simple rows/columns of text (using TreeView now, used CList in version 1)

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Just trying to display some simple text organised in rows and columns 
for the first time with gtkmm 2... With version 1, I would use CList for 
this purpose, but that type is gone, so what is the simplest way of 
doing this in the current version?

Actually, I've successfully set up what I want via Gtk::TreeView and 
friends, but I can't help feeling that it all got way too complex. I 
mean, this approach requires at least 10 lines of code to replace the 
simple "new Gtk::CList(...)", and assignment to existing values is extra 
work, too. Differently put, it seems like I pay a too high price for 
flexibility that I don't need. So is there an alternative? Or perhaps 
I've missed some shortcuts available when setting up a TreeView? One 
thing I didn't quite understand when doing that, by the way, was why I 
had to set up the columns via the "store" object *and* methods to the 
view itself.

Comments?

- Toralf