Sample Code 485: How to highlight specific rows or cells in treeview? |
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Written by kksou
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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Problem This is in response to Paul's post titled "Access Treeview cell renderers".
He would like to highlight some rows and cells based on some conditions.
In this example, if there is some error, the respective rows will be highlighted in red. The filename of the respective row will also be bold as shown below. This example also illustrates one commonly used technique: the serial number appearing on the left-most column will always stay in running sequence - even when the user deleted some rows.
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$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_size_request(400, 240);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Highlight specific rows or cells in treeview");
$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(
'You can also delete the rows by pressing the Delete key'), 0);
$vbox->pack_start($hbox = new GtkHBox(), 0);
$hbox->pack_start($button = new GtkButton('Delete Selected Rows'), 0);
$button->connect('clicked', 'on_process_button');
// the 2D table
$data = array(
array('path1', '', 1), // note 1
array('path2', '', 2),
array('playtv.wmv', '10.6MB', 0),
array('filler.wmv', '528.3KB', 0),
array('newhavernport1250.wmv', '203.1MB', 0));
$status_code = array(
'0' => 'queued',
'1' => 'error: file not found',
'2' => 'error: server not found',
);
$view = display_table($vbox, $data);
$view->connect('key-press-event', 'on_keypress');
$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();
function display_table($vbox, $data) {
// Set up a scroll window
$scrolled_win = new GtkScrolledWindow();
$scrolled_win->set_policy( Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC,
Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC);
$vbox->pack_start($scrolled_win);
// Creates the list store
if (defined("GObject::TYPE_STRING")) {
$model = new GtkListStore(GObject::TYPE_LONG, GObject::TYPE_STRING,
GObject::TYPE_STRING, GObject::TYPE_LONG); // note 1
} else {
$model = new GtkListStore(Gtk::TYPE_LONG, Gtk::TYPE_STRING,
Gtk::TYPE_STRING, Gtk::TYPE_LONG); // note 1
}
$field_header = array('pos', 'filename', 'size', 'status');
$field_justification = array(0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
// 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[$col]);
if ($col>0) $column->set_sort_column_id($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); // note 2
$view->append_column($column);
}
// pupulates the data
for ($row=0; $row<count($data); ++$row) {
$values = array($row+1);
for ($col=0; $col<count($data[$row]); ++$col) {
$values[] = $data[$row][$col];
}
$model->append($values);
}
$selection = $view->get_selection();
$selection->set_mode(Gtk::SELECTION_MULTIPLE);
return $view;
}
// self-defined function to format the price column
function format_col($column, $cell, $model, $iter, $col_num) {
$path = $model->get_path($iter); // get the current path
$row_num = $path[0]; // get the row number
$status = $model->get_value($iter, 3);
if ($col_num==3) {
global $status_code;
$cell->set_property('text', $status_code[$status]); // note 3
}
$row_color = ($row_num%2==1) ? '#dddddd' : '#ffffff';
$cell->set_property('cell-background', $row_color); // note 4
$val = $model->get_value($iter, $col_num);
if ($col_num==1 && $status>0) {
$cell->set_property('markup', "<span><b>$val</b></span>"); // note 5
}
if ($col_num>0 && $status>0) {
$cell->set_property('foreground', '#FF1A00'); // note 6
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Explanation We use the code from How to delete multiple rows in GtkTreeView using GtkListStore - Part 2 - by pressing delete key? as the base.
What's new here:
- We create a model of 4 columns - the first to store the serial number, the second is the filename, the third is the file size, and the last to hold the status. Since the serial number is automatically generated, the data array contains only 3 columns.
- Set up the custom cell display function.
- Display the corresponding description of the status code.
- Sets the alternate row color.
- Bold the filename if there is an error.
- Show the row in red if there is an error.
- Otherwise show the row in black.
- Delete the row if the user presses the Del key.
- Regenerate the serial number.
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