[pygtk] Scrolling to the previous position in a TreeView

[Walter Leibbrandt]

Hi,

Lionel Dricot wrote:
> I perfectly agree. That's why I'm not satisfied with this solution. 
> But, at least, it works and I prefer having an ugly working code than 
> a non functionnal software.
Looks like I didn't succeed in saying what I wanted to say (I seem to do 
that a lot :/). The reason why I mentioned gobject.idle_add() is to 
suggest that you try it as an alternative to timeout_add()... Or have 
you tried it?
>
> From my point of view (which is very new and not well exeperienced), 
> it looks like a pygtk/gtk bug/design flaw. If I set a value for the 
> adjustement, it should be done, not matter what. If waiting 100ms  
> before calling a function change your software's behaviour, I call 
> that a bug.
In that case, *please* stay away from a multi-threading in Gtk+ apps. ;)
>
> Maybe there's something that I don't understand because I really 
> believe that going to a specific scroll position is a very common 
> usecase.  (but it looks like the documentation on this part is very 
> weak. Look at the get_vadjustement which refers to set_vadjustement 
> which, itself, just says : "it set the adjustement" without explaining 
> what an adjustement is)

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