Re: gtk3: Replaced PsppSheetView with GtkTreeView for the variables window

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 03:05:57AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     
     Another path I considered was to use a GTK+ library for viewing a
     database.  I think that the options didn't seem very good at the time.
     Looking at http://www.gnome-db.org/, it might be worth a shot.  I guess
     the first step would be to write a libgda provider for PSPP, then one
     could use the GdauiGrid (GdauiRawGrid?) widget to edit the data.

I had a chat with the Gtk+ devs on irc today.

In the latest GLib there is a GListModel interface:
 https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GListModel.html

That in itself doesn't bring much.  But it looks like something might be
in the works.

Somebody pointed me to https://github.com/baedert/listbox-c

This seems to rather evectively impement a widget which displays a list of
rows in O(1) time and space.    And it is nicely uncomplicated at the moment.
It lazily creates the rows, and displays them only as needed.

It doesn't do multiple columns, but perhaps could be extended to do so.

J'


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