Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:49:22AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:57:33 -0700
> Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:50:25AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > >  I like the color swatch and how it shows a small
> > > rectangle of the layer color when the layer is hidden; if this
> > > swatch were the show/hide toggle, that would be very slick.
> > 
> > That is how I would like it to work. But clicking the swatch
> > also selects the layer, which is undesirable behavior. There
> > is no clean way to prevent this with a GtkTreeView widget.
> 
> It doesn't sound like a âtree viewâ is the most appropriate concept for
> the layer list.  There is no apparent visual hierarchy.  I am not
> familiar with GTK, but is there another widget that would be more
> suitable?  E.g., table, list, general scrollable canvas with custom
> widgets stacked vertically?
>

No, "tree view" is used for everything. You can hookup a "tree model"
if you want a heirarchy, but for lists you hookup a "list model".

The viewing logic is the same, so gtk used the confusing name "tree
view" for both in other to avoid code duplication.

-- 
Andrew Poelstra
Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
Web:   http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/



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