I have a tree view. In my program I want to highlight (select/set focus) one row of the tree view. That highlighted row should be the same as if the user had clicked on that row.
Please let me know how I may set the row. Any assistance or suggestions are much appreciated. On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:40 +1000, Donald Malcolm wrote: > How do I set a row in a tree view list to be selected in the same manner > as if it were clicked upon? > > The tree view that I am using is populated with two columns. The first > is not visible, and the second is displayed. So the user sees a one > column selection where they are able to select one of the rows from the > list. > > On initial display I want to be able to pre-select one of the rows, and > present the list to the user with that pre-selected row highlighted as > if it were click upon. > > Essentially the program goes something like the following: > > gtk_list_store_append(model, iter); > gtk_list_store_set( model, iter, -1); > g_value_init(&value, G_TYPE_STRING); > g_value_set_string (&value,str); > gtk_list_store_set_value(model, iter, i, &value); > > tv = gtk_tree_view_new_with_model((GtkTreeModel*)model); > > renderer = gtk_cell_renderer_text_new(); > gtk_tree_view_insert_column_with_attributes( > GTK_TREE_VIEW(tv), > -1, > heading, > renderer, > "markup", > i, > NULL); > > gtk_tree_selection_select_iter( > gtk_tree_view_get_selection(GTK_TREE_VIEW(tv)), > &initial_iter); > path_to_initial_row = (GtkTreePath *)gtk_tree_model_get_path( > (GtkTreeModel*)model, &initial_iter); > > gtk_tree_view_scroll_to_cell( > GTK_TREE_VIEW(tv), > path_to_initial_row, > NULL, /* as we want no column move */ > TRUE, /* yes use alignments */ > 0.5, /* align vertical to middle */ > 0); /* align Left Hand Side */ > > gtk_tree_view_set_cursor(GTK_TREE_VIEW(tv), > path_to_initial_row, NULL, FALSE); > > The last statement "gtk_tree_view_set_cursor" has no effect, and is my > best guess at getting the selected row to be highlighted. What happens > is that the row is greyed, and I suspect that means the row is selected, > but does not have focus. I want it to have focus, so that when the user > presses enter, the current line is returned as the selected one. > > What I need to do, is get the program to recognise an initial row, so > that when the user does not click on anything, the initial row is > initially displayed as having focus, and therefore is the selected row > upon return from the window. > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
