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This is actually a repost, as previous post did not got any attention.
Dear friends,
I have another query.
As the treeview is loaded from a file, in my program, new entries can also be entered. It writes to the Treeview, as well as in a file using:



Now, my question is, can this two entry be linked such that if I delete an entry from treeview, it will also delete the entry from file(fop). Or for doing this, I have to regex the complete file(fop)?
I can change the writing to file using hash table as well, but can I link the treeview entry with the entry in table?
Please reply.

Hi.

Usually you don't associate changes in GUI directly to changes in file. You load your file into your internal data structure, then modify/update it as you see fit and store changes back to file (usually overwriting the old one).

You can achieve what you want by using memory mapped files, but in your case, this is really not needed, since storing bibliography can be safely done at the end of editing or at regular intervals.

Cheers,
Tadej

Ok,
I am obeying your advice.

oops, I read you wrong!
As you rightly said, storing bibliography can be done at regular interval, that means to me, I should not write to file at each step, for each entry created, right?

right. Have a look at the source code for some text editing programs to get an example.
If you save at each step then a user can easily destroy his/her work quite easily.
If you want to do a real thorough job you might want to save each edit as a diff in temporary memory. At regular intervals autosave by merging the diffs to create a temporary file. This allows the user to be able to undo/redo actions as well as having both the original and a backup in the event of something going wrong with the system.

Paul,
I checked, probably I have to deal with gtksourceview, isn't it?

Also, as par tadej's advice, I am trying to open the file using mapped file, but i think examples on this is very little.
Can anybody kindly direct me where i can find some working example?

GtkSourceView is a good option. You don't have to though. You could write your code entirely yourself; building up on what you have already done. Or there's also a middle ground as GtkSourceView is under LGPL2 you can fork it and trim it down to what you need. The fact, however, that GtkSourceView is in most repositories makes it an attractive option.
Re: mapped files, I haven't any experience with them but if its working examples your after the usual process I do is do a search on the command; ignore all the glib/gtk documentation sites (you'll then find either bug reports or diffs); search for where the source code of the project associated with a particular diff/bug report is. Keep in mind with working examples that though they may be working it doesn't mean they work well (particularly in terms of memory leaks).

I tried to find out how g_mapped_file works and failed.
If someone has used it, can he guide me a bit?