[Denemo-devel] Midi device manager tree vs/ list

[Jeremiah Benham]

I have been studying gtklist and treeviews. I was wondering which to  
use for the midi device manager. I currently put a list template up.  
Recently I learned how to vreate gtktrees. A list view would have one  
colum contianing device clients and the other contains ports. In tree  
view it would look similar to qjackctl's tree.
+Jack:0
-Jack:1
 --Denemo:0

The problem being with the tree view is that users might select a port  
and select add device. If this happens should a pop up complain that  
"a port can not be added to a port" please select a device to add a  
port too. There may be some way to retrive the parent name but I am  
not sure now.  I don't want to spend much more time on this.

My other question is would a user expect to select a port name and  
then be able to delete that one? If so and the port was in the  
beginning of the list. then I would have to keep the string of names  
remaining but delete the last Jack port then rename all Jack ports.  
Would this cause any problems? I guess it wouldn't if staffs midi is  
not trying to write to ports via number but by name somehow.

Jeremiah