[pygtk] how to get tabular data in a textview

[Steve McClure]

On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:22 PM, shawn bright wrote:

> ok, listview looks good,
> the view is constantly scrolling. By that i mean that there are rows
> added all the time.
> It is a constant info update as to what the threads are doing.
>
> If this is a problem, maybe i should go with some other solution

I have used it where the contents of many rows are changing but not  
with a lot of adds and deletes of rows so I can't comment on how well  
it performs in that situation.

>
> sk
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Steve McClure <smcclure at racemi.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:43 PM, shawn bright wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I have a textview that is really busy in my application. Lots of  
>>> stuff
>>> scrolling all the time.
>>> So, what i would like is some way to get my columns of data to  
>>> line up.
>>>
>>> Using \t doesn't do too much for this.
>>>
>>> What would be perfect would be if the the textview could render  
>>> html,
>>> like a table, but even if i need to do something different than a
>>> textview, i am willing to learn and use some other tool in pygtk.
>>
>> It sounds like you might want a listview instead of textview.  
>> Unless by
>> "scrolling" you mean entering and leaving the view all the time.   
>> In that
>> case you might just want to use a fixed width font in the textview.
>>
>>>
>>> thanks for any tips or advice.
>>>
>>> shawn
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>>
>>
>

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