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Sample Code 315: How to drag and drop between 2 GtkTreeViews - Part 6 - in both directions with hints of insert location?
Written by kksou   
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Problem

In How to drag and drop between 2 GtkTreeViews - Part 5 - left to right with hints of insert location? we have done drag-and-drop with "visual clue" of insert-location for one way - left to right.

Let's now do it for both ways - left to right and right to left - as shown below:

How to drag and drop between 2 GtkTreeViews - Part 6 - in both directions with hints of insert location?


Solution

If you understood the article How to drag and drop between 2 GtkTreeViews - Part 5 - left to right with hints of insert location?, you should have no problem doing this one.

Looks simple, isn't it? But took me an hour to get it right!

The "challenging" part is to make sure that when you drag from right to left, only the rows on the left gets highlighted. When you drag and stay on the right treeview, the rows on the right should not get highlighted.

Want to try this out as an exercise? The answers are given below...

Important Note: This only works for PHP-GTK2 compliled with gtk+ v2.10 and above. If you are using an older version, for linux, you may follow the step-by-step instructions to recompile php-gtk2 with gtk+ v2.10. For windows, please refer to How to install php gtk2 on windows? You may also want to take a look here to see some of the new exciting PHP-GTK2 Functionalities.


Sample Code

Important Note: This only works for PHP-GTK2 compliled with gtk+ v2.10 and above. If you are using an older version, for linux, you may follow the step-by-step instructions to recompile php-gtk2 with gtk+ v2.10. For windows, please refer to How to install php gtk2 on windows? You may also want to take a look here to see some of the new exciting PHP-GTK2 Functionalities.

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<?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_title($argv[0]);
$window->set_size_request(600, 240);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());

// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("               Drag and Drop between 2 TreeViews\n".
"Part 6 - (both directions) with hints of insert location");

$title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10"));
$title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff"));
$title->set_size_request(-1, 40);
$vbox->pack_start($title, 0, 0);

$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(''), 0, 0);
$vbox->pack_start($hbox = new GtkHBox());

// Set up treeview 1
$data1 = array(
    array('row0', 'item 42', 2, 3.1),
    array('row1', 'item 36', 20, 6.21),
    array('row2', 'item 21', 8, 9.36),
    array('row3', 'item 10', 11, 12.4),
    array('row4', 'item 7', 5, 15.5),
    array('row5', 'item 4', 17, 18.6),
    array('row6', 'item 3', 20, 21.73));
$view1 = display_table ($hbox, $data1, 1);

// setup drag for left side
$view1->drag_source_set(Gdk::BUTTON1_MASK,
    array( array( 'text/plain', 0, 0)), Gdk::ACTION_COPY|Gdk::ACTION_MOVE);
$view1->connect('drag-data-get', 'on_drag');

// setup drop for left side
$view1->drag_dest_set(Gtk::DEST_DEFAULT_ALL,
    array( array( 'text/plain', 0, 0)), Gdk::ACTION_COPY|Gdk::ACTION_MOVE);
$hbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel('  '), 0, 0);

// Set up treeview 2
$data2 = array(
    array('row7', 'item 127', 105, 115.5),
    array('row8', 'item 124', 117, 118.6),
    array('row9', 'item 123', 120, 121.73));
$view2 = display_table ($hbox, $data2, 2);

// setup drop for right side
$view2->drag_dest_set(Gtk::DEST_DEFAULT_ALL,
    array( array( 'text/plain', 0, 0)), Gdk::ACTION_COPY|Gdk::ACTION_MOVE);
$view2->connect('drag-data-received', 'on_drop', $view1);

// setup drag for right side
$view2->drag_source_set(Gdk::BUTTON1_MASK,
    array( array( 'text/plain', 0, 0)), Gdk::ACTION_COPY|Gdk::ACTION_MOVE);
$view2->connect('drag-data-get', 'on_drag');

// this is delayed till here because we need the ID of $view2
$view1->connect('drag-data-received', 'on_drop', $view2);

$view2->drag_dest_set_track_motion(true);
$view2->connect('drag-motion', 'on_drag_motion', 2, $view2);

$view1->drag_dest_set_track_motion(true);
$view1->connect('drag-motion', 'on_drag_motion', 1, $view1);

$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();

// display a 2D table in treeview
function display_table($container, $data, $treeview_num) {

    // Set up a scroll window
    $scrolled_win = new GtkScrolledWindow();
    $scrolled_win->set_policy( Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC,
        Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC);
    $container->pack_start($scrolled_win);

    // Creates the list store
    if (defined("GObject::TYPE_STRING")) {
        $model = new GtkListStore(GObject::TYPE_STRING, GObject::TYPE_STRING,
                    GObject::TYPE_LONG, GObject::TYPE_DOUBLE);
    } else {
        $model = new GtkListStore(Gtk::TYPE_STRING, Gtk::TYPE_STRING,
                    Gtk::TYPE_LONG, Gtk::TYPE_DOUBLE);
    }
    $field_header = array('Row #', 'Description', 'Qty', 'Price');
    $field_justification = array(0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 1.0);

    // Creates the view to display the list store
    $view = new GtkTreeView($model);
    $scrolled_win->add($view);

    // Creates the columns
    for ($col=0; $col<count($field_header); ++$col) {
        $cell_renderer = new GtkCellRendererText();
        $cell_renderer->set_property("xalign", $field_justification[$col]);
        $column = new GtkTreeViewColumn($field_header[$col], $cell_renderer, 'text', $col);
        $column->set_alignment($field_justification[$col]);
        $column->set_sort_column_id($col);

        // set the header font and color
        $label = new GtkLabel($field_header[$col]);
        $label->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Arial Bold"));
        $label->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000FF"));
        $column->set_widget($label);
        $label->show();

        // setup self-defined function to display alternate row color
        $column->set_cell_data_func($cell_renderer, "format_col", $col, $treeview_num);
        $view->append_column($column);
    }

    // pupulates the data
    for ($row=0; $row<count($data); ++$row) {
        $values = array();
        for ($col=0; $col<count($data[$row]); ++$col) {
            $values[] = $data[$row][$col];
        }
        $model->append($values);
    }

    // setup selection
    $selection = $view->get_selection();
    $selection->connect('changed', 'on_selection', $treeview_num);

    global $drag_source_treeview, $drag_onto_path;
    $drag_source_treeview = -1;
    $drag_onto_path = -1;

    return $view;
}

// format treeview columns
function format_col($column, $cell, $model, $iter, $col_num, $treeview_num) {
    $path = $model->get_path($iter); // get the current path
    $row_num = $path[0]; // get the row number
    if ($col_num==3) {
        $amt = $model->get_value($iter, 3);
        $cell->set_property('text', '$'.number_format($amt,2));
    }
    $row_color = ($row_num%2==1) ? '#dddddd' : '#ffffff'; // sets the row color for odd and even rows

    global $drag_source_treeview, $drag_onto_path;

    if ($treeview_num!=$drag_source_treeview && $drag_onto_path>=0) {
        if ($row_num == $drag_onto_path) $row_color = '#BAFFBF';
    }

    $cell->set_property('cell-background', $row_color); // sets the background color
}

// the function that is called when user selects a row
function on_selection($selection, $treeview_num) {
    global $drag_source_treeview;
    $drag_source_treeview = $treeview_num;

    list($model, $iter) = $selection->get_selected();
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Explanation

We make use of the code from How to drag and drop between 2 GtkTreeViews - Part 5 - left to right with hints of insert location?

The technique used are exactly the same as in How to drag and drop between 2 GtkTreeViews - Part 5 - left to right with hints of insert location? Please refer to the article for explanations.


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