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xlinuks · Familiar Face Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Hi,
I'm coming from Java, learning C++ & Gtk to program for Linux. So far I like it. However I couldn't find a class that would be a "real" Table like the one in javax.swing.JTable. I found the Table class in Gtk, but it's rather a layout manager. Maybe the "real" Table in Gtk is called in some other way?

Micah Carrick · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject:

As far as I can tell (from Google Images) is most similar to a GtkTreeView. The GtkTreeView seems very complicated for new GTK+ programmers at first, however, it's complexity is what yields it's extraordinary abilities. You can do so very much with it.

You should probably start with the GTK+ 2.0 Tree View Tutorial

xlinuks · Familiar Face Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Thanks!
At a quick look it seems to be a mix of Java's JTree & JTable. I'll check try the tutorial out and post my conclusions :)

vronskij · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

[quote="Micah Carrick"]As far as I can tell (from Google Images) is most similar to a GtkTreeView. The GtkTreeView seems very complicated for new GTK+ programmers at first, however, it's complexity is what yields it's extraordinary abilities. You can do so very much with it.
/quote]

I think, this is not correct. There is no Table widget (sometimes called Grid widget, Spreadsheet widget) in GTK+. This has to be done manually. As a custom widget. There is already such widget created in GtkExtra,

xlinuks · Familiar Face Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Hehe I'm surprised but it looks indeed that there's no such thing. On the other hands I found in GTK things I've been missing much in Java. So that's OK so far.