David, I may be missing some thing but you should be able to select lines by control, shift or by individual. I think what you are after can be shown in the reconcile view, multiple lines can be selected and then right moused to a menu.
Anyway, enjoy your holiday... Bob On 12 August 2018 at 11:47, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Bob, > > From what I've read in the GtkTreeView documentation, the rubber-banding > mode only seems to support selection by dragging the mouse so one is only > able to select consecutive rows, not a group of single non-contiguous rows. > I could of course be wrong on that. It obviously sets the > GTK_SELECTION_MULTIPLE mode of a GtkTreeSelection along with the drag > detection. I find the Gtk documentation extremely terse and unhelpful in > some areas. I did find a reference to the row-activated signal being > emitted > when"when a non-editable row is selected and one of the keys: Space, > Shift+Space, Return or Enter is pressed." which would permit non-mouse row > activation to initiate the selection of a transfer account > > I also found a Python gtk discussion to the effect that GtkTreeView's > slection capabilities were limited pretty well to the drag over to select > and from that found a hint on how to do Ctrl click event detection using > the > GdkEventButton using the event-> state and also how to detect the right > click event. When I included that in the import-main-matcher.c the > row-activated signal stopped working. I am assuming here that the python > GTK > implementation is an exact parallel of the C++ implementation. I would > expect it to be pretty similar and possibly just the C++ code in Python > wrappers. > > I may have to setup a dummy program implementing a TreeView and just play > with how things work with rubber banding and multiple selection until I > understand it better and the interaction between the rubber-banding and > multiple selection mode. Usually the best way of understanding incomplete > or > unclear documentation. > > I'm away for a few days on holidays so I'll try and tackle it then if my > wife lets me get an opportunity. Otherwise it will be when I return. > > Cheers > > David > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
