[pygtk] Advanced Treeview Filtering Trouble

[John Finlay]

JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> If I understand your question I don't think you need to use the 
>> set_modify_func() method. The set_visible_func() method should be 
>> sufficient but you have to pass in an object that has mutable 
>> contents corresponding to the columns that you want to use for 
>> filtering. For example you could create a Python object that has one 
>> attribute that contains a list of car models and another attribute 
>> that has a maximum price. Pass this object as the data arg to the 
>> set_visible_func() method and change the attributes as needed. Your 
>> visible_cb() function could then do something like:
>>
>> def visible_cb(self, treestore, iter, x):
>>  return treestore[iter][0] in x.models and treestore[iter][4] <= 
>> x.maxprice
>>
>> John
>
> It did work!!
> thanks a lot jhon!!...
>
> However a new trouble has shown up!!, now i do need to get the row 
> data from the treeview which respond to the set_visible_func() 
> method.  It is easy to get the data from an ordinary treeview, it can 
> be done by "catching" the "cursor_changed" signal and handling it with 
> a function as follows:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>  #the treeview is connected to the signal and this event is connected 
> to a signal handler
>  self.connection= self.treeview.connect("cursor_changed", 
> self.getreedata)
>
>  #then the signal handler (a callback) is in charge of getting the 
> data of the row
> def self.getreedata(self, iter):
>   treeselection = self.treeview.get_selection()
>   select= treeselection.get_selected()
>   row_value= self.treestore.get_value(select[1], 0)
row_value= select[0].get_value(select[1], 0)

You need to use the model used by the TreeView which is self.modelfilter 
I'm assuming.

John