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Problem In How to setup interactive search in GtkTreeView for PHP GTK v2.0 - Part 1 - non OOP version? I showed you how to set up an interactive search on the windows platform using the latest PHP-GTK v2.0 and v2.0.1.
Since we have spent so much time trying to "duplicate" the functionalities of the default interactive search for treeview, we might as well make it better than the default one.
In this Part 5, the user can switch the search column by pressing the tab key in the popup search box. Note that the active search column is highlighted in green as shown below:

Solution Here are the steps to make this work:
- Register the signal
'key-press-event' on the GtkEntry to know when the the user presses the Tab key.
- Use GtkTreeview::set_search_column() to set the new search column.
- Highlight the search column in the custom cell display function (the one used to display the alternate row colors).
Sample Code Important Note: This only works for PHP-GTK v2.0 (or PHP-GTK2 compliled with gtk+ v2.12 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+ v2.12. For windows, please refer to How to install php gtk2 on windows?
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| <?php $window = new GtkWindow(); $window->set_title($argv[0]); $window->set_size_request(400, 240); $window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit')); $window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Interactive search in GtkTreeView for PHP-GTK v2.0\n". " Part 5 - switch search column with tab key"); $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);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel( 'Just start typing in treeview to activate interactive search'), 0); $vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel( 'You can switch the search column by pressing the Tab key'), 0);
// the 2D table
$data = 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', 41, 15.5), array('row5', 'item 4', 72, 18.6), array('row6', 'item 3', 93, 21.73));
$view = display_table($vbox, $data);
$view->set_enable_search(false); $view->connect('start-interactive-search', 'on_search_start'); $view->connect('button-press-event', 'on_buttonpress'); $view->connect('key-press-event', 'on_keypress'); $searchbox_on = 0; $search_column = 2; // note 1
$window->show_all(); Gtk::main();
function display_table($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_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); $view->append_column($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); }
$selection = $view->get_selection(); $selection->connect('changed', 'on_selection');
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 = $path[0]; // get the row number
if ($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';
global $searchbox_on, $search_column, $view; if ($searchbox_on && $col_num==$search_column) { $row_color = '#99FF99'; // note 6
$view->queue_draw(); } $cell->set_property('cell-background', $row_color); }
// the function that is called when user selects a row
function on_selection($selection) { list($model, $iter) = $selection->get_selected(); if ($iter==null) return; $desc = $model->get_value($iter, 1); $qty = $model->get_value($iter, 2); $price = $model->get_value($iter, 3); print "You have selected $desc: $qty ($price)\n"; }
function on_search_start($view) { global $searchbox_on; if (!$searchbox_on) interactive_search($view); }
function interactive_search($view, $key='') { global $searchbox_on; $searchbox_on = 1;
global $search_win; $search_win = new GtkWindow(); $search_win->add($vbox = new GtkVBox()); $search_win->set_modal(0); $search_win->set_decorated(0);
global $search_entry; $vbox->pack_start($frame = new GtkFrame(), 0); $frame->add($search_entry = new GtkEntry()); $search_entry->connect('key-press-event', 'on_entry_keypress'); $search_entry->connect('button-press-event', 'on_entry_buttonpress');
global $search_column; $view->set_search_entry($search_entry); $view->set_search_column($search_column); // note 2
$search_entry->set_text($key);
$search_win->show_all(); set_searchwin_pos($search_entry);
$search_entry->set_position(-1);
global $timeout_handle, $start_time; $start_time = microtime(1); $timeout_handle = Gtk::timeout_add(1000, 'check_idle'); $view->queue_draw(); }
function on_buttonpress($view, $event) { global $searchbox_on; if ($searchbox_on) destroy_searchwin(); }
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Explanation The code above is extended from that of How to setup interactive search in GtkTreeView for PHP GTK v2.0 - Part 4 - automatically hide after 3 seconds?
What's new here:
- We used a global variable
$search_column to store the active search column. Here we start with column 2 (i.e. the Qty column) as the initial search column.
- Set the initital search column.
- Check if the user has pressed the
<Tab> key.
- Go to the next column.
- Set the new search column.
- This is where we highlight the search column in green.
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