GtkTreeView - Edit Cells and Save Changes

JW01 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:20 pm **Posts:** 3

hello,

(sorry for my bad english -.-)

i recently wrote a C based Gtk Program, which shows the content of a database in a GtkTreeView-Widget. The content should be editable. The CellRenderer already allow to edit the cells, but when i edit a cell, the changes won't be saved. It would be fine, if the changed cells would automatically be saved.

i haven't found any tutorial. most tutorials are for PyGTK or php-gtk, but i need it for C.

greetings xD

Micah Carrick · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:55 pm

Take a look at the GTK+ 2.0 Treeview Tutorial

The key part of that is:

Quote:

Note that the cell renderer will not change the data for you in the store. After a cell has been edited, you will only receive an "edited" signal. If you do not change the data in the store, the old text will be rendered again as if nothing had happened.

That tripped me up when I first learned how to deal with editable treeview cells too.

JW01 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:20 pm **Posts:** 3

Code:

GtkTreePath *path;

void cell_edited_callback (GtkCellRendererText *cell, gchar *path_string, gchar *new_text, gpointer user_data)
{
path = gtk_tree_path_new_from_string(path_string);

/* getting changed data and write it to mysql-database */

}

the first column in treeview is the ID column (primary key).

my questions:
1) how to get the primary key of the changed row?
2) the gchar *new_text contains the changed value, but i dont know which cell in the row is changed. (for example first name, Last Name, Location etc.)

i think it would work with GtkTreeSelection (no multi-selections in treeview allowed), but i don't know how to use **, which is used in most of the gtktreeselection-functions.

greetings

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