Re: Cast Gtk::TreeModel::iterator to int

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 17:09 +0100, Glus Xof wrote:
> Honestly, I have seen the  Gtk::TreeModel::Path::get_indices() method
> before, but I didn't consider it because I didn't know why the array
> of int(s), while I need just one int... Jose came again to give me
> light... because TreeStore nodes also exist...
> 
> So,
> 
> Glib::RefPtr <Gtk::ListStore>  m_refTreeModel;
> Gtk::TreeModel::iterator iter;
> Gtk::TreeModel::Path cellpath=m_refTreeModel->get_path(iter);
> std::vector<gint> rowindex = cellpath.get_indices();
> 
> The right value is rowindex[0]... ;)
> 
> Thanks to all,

However, remember that this is almost never what you want:

- If you want some kind of numerical identifier for the item then you
should probably store that ID in an extra model column.
- If you want to refer to the row temporarily somehow, you should use
Gtk::TreeModel::iterator. 


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