[pygtk] Inserting into a TreeView

[Steve McClure]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Johannes Bauer wrote:

> Steve McClure schrieb:
>
>>> How can I do this easily?
>>
>> Easy is a relative word.
>
> :-)
>
>> Have you read the main tutorial on this topic?
>>
>> http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/ch-TreeViewWidget.html
>
> Yup, I read this, but it seems that I missed the important part (tried
> to copy & paste & modify, but always something went wrong). Your code,
> on the other hand:
>
>> I'm pretty rusty on this now but basically something like this:
> [Code]
>
> Was not rusty at all, but made me finally understand what I'm actually
> doing - and I now got it working. It seems that I lacked a deeper
> understanding of why GTK did the things so  
> "complicated" (CellRenderer,
> etc.) - now I read a whole lot about it and finally get it! And I love
> the idea of having that so flexible. It really actually is very cool,
> but nothing for GTK novices like myself.

It is complicated when compared to the old GtkCList widget.  However,  
as you discovered the new renderer/view/model system is much more  
flexible and allows you do do much more than the old widgets could do.

>
> Thanks again for your help!

I'm glad I could help.  Back in 2001 when I was getting started  
everyone on the mailing list was alway very helpful to me and it feels  
good to be able to contribute.

>
> Kind regards,
> Johannes
>

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