Sample Code 491: How to have a start stop button in GtkTreeView - Part 2 - using treestore? |
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Written by kksou
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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Problem This is in response to Giovanni's post titled "a button with an image in it in a Treeview".
In Part 1, I've showed a solution using GtkListStore.
In this Part 2, I present the same solution, but using GtkTreeStore instead of GtkListStore so that the projects and activities can be shown in a treeview manner as shown below.
Note that I've also changed the millisecond timer to a seconds timer because it seems that having more than 6 concurrent millisecond timer running in a treeview seems to be a bit too taxing for the treeview. You can try it for yourself. The timer doesn't get updated often enough, even though we set the timeout at 1ms interval.
Solution
- We use exactly the same technique as outlined in Part 1.
- We make use of the technique from How to display a tree structure from array? to populate a tree model.
- Note also that I've added 2 more columns to the tree model: column 7 to store the ID of the item, and column 8 to store the ID of its parent.
Sample Code The following image files are required by the sample code below. Please save a copy of the image files and put them in the same directory where you store the sample code.
 | button_start32.gif |
 | button_stop32.gif |
 | button_blank32.gif (note: this one looks empty, but there's a blank image there.
I added a border so that you can see it.) |
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$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_title($argv[0]);
$window->set_size_request(400, 400);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Start/Stop buttons in GtkTreeView\n".
" Part 2 - using Tree Model");
$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);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(), 0);
// the 2D table
$data = array(
array('Project 1', 0, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 1, 0),
array('Activity 1.1', 1, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 2, 1),
array('Activity 1.2', 1, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 3, 1),
array('Project 2', 0, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 4, 0),
array('Activity 2.1', 1, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 5, 4),
array('Activity 2.2', 1, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 6, 4),
array('Activity 2.3', 1, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 7, 4),
array('Activity 2.4', 1, 0, 0, 0, '', 0, 8, 4),
);
display_table($vbox, $data);
$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();
function display_table($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 GtkTreeStore( // note 1
GObject::TYPE_STRING, // col 0: column title
GObject::TYPE_BOOLEAN, // col 1: boolean - 1 to display start/stop icon
GObject::TYPE_BOOLEAN, // col 2: boolean - 0=stop 1=start
GObject::TYPE_DOUBLE, // col 3: start time in float
GObject::TYPE_DOUBLE, // col 4: time elapsed in float
GObject::TYPE_STRING, // col 5: time elapsed in string
GObject::TYPE_LONG, // col 6: timeout id
GObject::TYPE_LONG, // col 7: id of this item
GObject::TYPE_LONG // col 8: parent id of this item
);
} else {
$model = new GtkTreeStore( // note 1
Gtk::TYPE_STRING, // col 0: column title
Gtk::TYPE_BOOLEAN, // col 1: boolean - 1 to display start/stop icon
Gtk::TYPE_BOOLEAN, // col 2: boolean - 0=stop 1=start
Gtk::TYPE_DOUBLE, // col 3: start time in float
Gtk::TYPE_DOUBLE, // col 4: time elapsed in float
Gtk::TYPE_STRING, // col 5: time elapsed in string
Gtk::TYPE_LONG, // col 6: timeout id
Gtk::TYPE_LONG, // col 7: id of this item
Gtk::TYPE_LONG // col 8: parent id of this item
);
}
// Creates the view to display the list store
$view = new GtkTreeView($model);
$scrolled_win->add($view);
$view->connect('button-press-event', 'on_buttonpress', $model);
// setup col 0
$cell_renderer = new GtkCellRendererText(); // note 2
$column = new GtkTreeViewColumn('Project/Activity', $cell_renderer, 'text', 0);
$column->set_cell_data_func($cell_renderer, 'format_col', 0);
$view->append_column($column);
// setup col 1 (the buttons)
$cell_renderer = new GtkCellRendererPixbuf();
$column = new GtkTreeViewColumn();
$column->pack_start($cell_renderer);
$column->set_cell_data_func($cell_renderer, 'format_col', 1);
$column->set_title('Action');
$view->append_column($column);
// setup col 2
$cell_renderer = new GtkCellRendererText();
$column = new GtkTreeViewColumn('Time', $cell_renderer, 'text', 5);
$column->set_cell_data_func($cell_renderer, 'format_col', 5);
$view->append_column($column);
// pupulates the data
$nodes = array(); // note 3
$nodes[0] = null; // root
for ($row=0; $row<count($data); ++$row) {
$id = $data[$row][7];
$parent = $data[$row][8];
$values = array();
for ($col=0; $col<count($data[$row]); ++$col) {
$values[] = $data[$row][$col];
}
$nodes[$id] = $model->append($nodes[$parent], $values);
}
$view->expand_all(); // note 4
if (method_exists($view, 'set_enable_tree_lines')) $view->set_enable_tree_lines(1);
$selection = $view->get_selection();
$selection->set_mode(Gtk::SELECTION_NONE);
}
// self-defined function to display alternate row color
function format_col($column, $cell, $model, $iter, $col_num) {
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Explanation
- Note that we changed this from GtkListStore to GtkTreeStore. We also added column 7 to store the ID of the item, and column 8 to store the ID of its parent.
- Note that we have changed the "Project/Activity" to the first column so that the projects and activities are presented in a hierarchical manner.
- We make use of the technique as outlined in How to display a tree structure from array? to populate the data to the treemodel.
- Expand the entire tree.
- Display start/stop button for activities only.
- Note that for treemodel, this is not changed to
$path = $path_array[0]
- We only want to process button clicks on the start/stop buttons.
- Note that I've changed this from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
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