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I need to create a simple list of items which are selectable by the user in GTK, but I am unable to do this. I need something with similar functionality to the JList from Java. There are two objects I have found in GTK which seem like they might suit my needs, the List object and the TreeView object. The List object is deprecated, so I have not looked at this much, though screen caps from GIS show this to be what I need. The treeview object is what is currently recommended, but with the wide variety of unneeded things, it is too cumbersome and confusing to use. Is there any way I can get something which is simple? Essentially all I need is to be able to add a string item to the list, remove an item from the list, find out which items are selected, and update a particular item in the list. What is the easiest way to do this?

Ah yes, the GtkTreeView can be a bit overwhelming at first. It may seem unnecessarily complex at first, but they did this with good reason. I remember my frustration with the limitations of such controls in Visual Basic and Visual C++ on Windows.

So, what you'll probably end up using is GtkTreeView with a GtkListStore as the model. This is explained in Chapter 8 of Andrew's Foundations of GTK+ Development, and there is a very thorough GTK+ Treeview Tutorial at http://scentric.net/tutorial/.

I created a quick example for you and posted in in the example code forum: http://www.gtkforums.com/about902.html

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Thank you, the sample code was very helpful.