The GtkCList widget has replaced the GtkList widget (which is still available).
The GtkCList widget is a multi-column list widget that is capable of handling literally thousands of rows of information. Each column can optionally have a title, which itself is optionally active, allowing us to bind a function to its selection.
Creating a GtkCList is quite straightforward, once you have learned about widgets in general. It provides the almost standard two ways, that is the hard way, and the easy way. But before we create it, there is one thing we should figure out beforehand: how many columns should it have?
Not all columns have to be visible and can be used to store data that is related to a certain cell in the list.
GtkWidget *gtk_clist_new ( gint columns );
GtkWidget *gtk_clist_new_with_titles( gint columns,
gchar *titles[] );
The first form is very straight forward, the second might require some explanation. Each column can have a title associated with it, and this title can be a label or a button that reacts when we click on it. If we use the second form, we must provide pointers to the title texts, and the number of pointers should equal the number of columns specified. Of course we can always use the first form, and manually add titles later.
Note: the GtkCList widget does not have its own scrollbars and should be placed within a GtkScrolledWindow widget if your require this functionality. This is a change from the GTK 1.0 implementation.
There are several attributes that can be used to alter the behaviour of a GtkCList. First there is
void gtk_clist_set_selection_mode( GtkCList *clist,
GtkSelectionMode mode );
which, as the name implies, sets the selection mode of the GtkCList. The first argument is the GtkCList widget, and the second specifies the cell selection mode (they are defined in gtkenums.h). At the time of this writing, the following modes are available to us:
Others might be added in later revisions of GTK.
We can also define what the border of the GtkCList widget should look like. It is done through
void gtk_clist_set_shadow_type( GtkCList *clist,
GtkShadowType border );
And the possible values for the second argument are
When you create a GtkCList widget, you will also get a set of title buttons automatically. They live in the top of the CList window, and can act either as normal buttons that respond to being pressed, or they can be passive, in which case they are nothing more than a title. There are four different calls that aid us in setting the status of the title buttons.
void gtk_clist_column_title_active( GtkCList *clist,
gint column );
void gtk_clist_column_title_passive( GtkCList *clist,
gint column );
void gtk_clist_column_titles_active( GtkCList *clist );
void gtk_clist_column_titles_passive( GtkCList *clist );
An active title is one which acts as a normal button, a passive one is just a label. The first two calls above will activate/deactivate the title button above the specific column, while the last two calls activate/deactivate all title buttons in the supplied clist widget.
But of course there are those cases when we don't want them at all, and so they can be hidden and shown at will using the following two calls.
void gtk_clist_column_titles_show( GtkCList *clist );
void gtk_clist_column_titles_hide( GtkCList *clist );
For titles to be really useful we need a mechanism to set and change them, and this is done using
void gtk_clist_set_column_title( GtkCList *clist,
gint column,
gchar *title );
Note that only the title of one column can be set at a time, so if all the titles are known from the beginning, then I really suggest using gtk_clist_new_with_titles (as described above) to set them. Saves you coding time, and makes your program smaller. There are some cases where getting the job done the manual way is better, and that's when not all titles will be text. GtkCList provides us with title buttons that can in fact incorporate whole widgets, for example a pixmap. It's all done through
void gtk_clist_set_column_widget( GtkCList *clist,
gint column,
GtkWidget *widget );
which should require no special explanation.
It is possible to change the justification for a column, and it is done through
void gtk_clist_set_column_justification( GtkCList *clist,
gint column,
GtkJustification justification );
The GtkJustification type can take the following values:
The next function is a very important one, and should be standard in the setup of all GtkCList widgets. When the list is created, the width of the various columns are chosen to match their titles, and since this is seldom the right width we have to set it using
void gtk_clist_set_column_width( GtkCList *clist,
gint column,
gint width );
Note that the width is given in pixels and not letters. The same goes for the height of the cells in the columns, but as the default value is the height of the current font this isn't as critical to the application. Still, it is done through
void gtk_clist_set_row_height( GtkCList *clist,
gint height );
Again, note that the height is given in pixels.
We can also move the list around without user interaction, however, it does require that we know what we are looking for. Or in other words, we need the row and column of the item we want to scroll to.
void gtk_clist_moveto( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
gfloat row_align,
gfloat col_align );
The gfloat row_align is pretty important to understand. It's a value between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 means that we should scroll the list so the row appears at the top, while if the value of row_align is 1.0, the row will appear at the bottom instead. All other values between 0.0 and 1.0 are also valid and will place the row between the top and the bottom. The last argument, gfloat col_align works in the same way, though 0.0 marks left and 1.0 marks right instead.
Depending on the application's needs, we don't have to scroll to an item that is already visible to us. So how do we know if it is visible? As usual, there is a function to find that out as well.
GtkVisibility gtk_clist_row_is_visible( GtkCList *clist,
gint row );
The return value is is one of the following:
Note that it will only tell us if a row is visible. Currently there is no way to determine this for a column. We can get partial information though, because if the return is GTK_VISIBILITY_PARTIAL, then some of it is hidden, but we don't know if it is the row that is being cut by the lower edge of the listbox, or if the row has columns that are outside.
We can also change both the foreground and background colors of a particular row. This is useful for marking the row selected by the user, and the two functions that is used to do it are
void gtk_clist_set_foreground( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
GdkColor *color );
void gtk_clist_set_background( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
GdkColor *color );
Please note that the colors must have been previously allocated.
We can add rows in three ways. They can be prepended or appended to the list using
gint gtk_clist_prepend( GtkCList *clist,
gchar *text[] );
gint gtk_clist_append( GtkCList *clist,
gchar *text[] );
The return value of these two functions indicate the index of the row that was just added. We can insert a row at a given place using
void gtk_clist_insert( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gchar *text[] );
In these calls we have to provide a collection of pointers that are the texts we want to put in the columns. The number of pointers should equal the number of columns in the list. If the text[] argument is NULL, then there will be no text in the columns of the row. This is useful, for example, if we want to add pixmaps instead (something that has to be done manually).
Also, please note that the numbering of both rows and columns start at 0.
To remove an individual row we use
void gtk_clist_remove( GtkCList *clist,
gint row );
There is also a call that removes all rows in the list. This is a lot faster than calling gtk_clist_remove once for each row, which is the only alternative.
void gtk_clist_clear( GtkCList *clist );
There are also two convenience functions that should be used when a lot of changes have to be made to the list. This is to prevent the list flickering while being repeatedly updated, which may be highly annoying to the user. So instead it is a good idea to freeze the list, do the updates to it, and finally thaw it which causes the list to be updated on the screen.
void gtk_clist_freeze( GtkCList * clist );
void gtk_clist_thaw( GtkCList * clist );
A cell can contain a pixmap, text or both. To set them the following functions are used.
void gtk_clist_set_text( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
gchar *text );
void gtk_clist_set_pixmap( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
GdkPixmap *pixmap,
GdkBitmap *mask );
void gtk_clist_set_pixtext( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
gchar *text,
guint8 spacing,
GdkPixmap *pixmap,
GdkBitmap *mask );
It's quite straightforward. All the calls have the GtkCList as the
first argument, followed by the row and column of the cell, followed
by the data to be set. The spacing argument in
gtk_clist_set_pixtext is the number of pixels between the pixmap and
the beginning of the text.
To read back the data, we instead use
gint gtk_clist_get_text( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
gchar **text );
gint gtk_clist_get_pixmap( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
GdkPixmap **pixmap,
GdkBitmap **mask );
gint gtk_clist_get_pixtext( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
gchar **text,
guint8 *spacing,
GdkPixmap **pixmap,
GdkBitmap **mask );
It isn't necessary to read it all back in case you aren't interested. Any of the pointers that are meant for return values (all except the clist) can be NULL. So if we want to read back only the text from a cell that is of type pixtext, then we would do the following, assuming that clist, row and column already exist:
gchar *mytext;
gtk_clist_get_pixtext(clist, row, column, &mytext, NULL, NULL, NULL);
There is one more call that is related to what's inside a cell in the clist, and that's
GtkCellType gtk_clist_get_cell_type( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column );
which returns the type of data in a cell. The return value is one of
There is also a function that will let us set the indentation, both vertical and horizontal, of a cell. The indentation value is of type gint, given in pixels, and can be both positive and negative.
void gtk_clist_set_shift( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
gint vertical,
gint horizontal );
With a GtkCList it is possible to set a data pointer for a row. This pointer will not be visible for the user, but is merely a convenience for the programmer to associate a row with a pointer to some additional data.
The functions should be fairly self-explanatory by now
void gtk_clist_set_row_data( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gpointer data );
void gtk_clist_set_row_data_full( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gpointer data,
GtkDestroyNotify destroy );
gpointer gtk_clist_get_row_data( GtkCList *clist,
gint row );
gint gtk_clist_find_row_from_data( GtkCList *clist,
gpointer data );
There are also functions available that let us force the (un)selection of a row. These are
void gtk_clist_select_row( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column );
void gtk_clist_unselect_row( GtkCList *clist,
gint row,
gint column );
And also a function that will take x and y coordinates (for example, read from the mousepointer), and map that onto the list, returning the corresponding row and column.
gint gtk_clist_get_selection_info( GtkCList *clist,
gint x,
gint y,
gint *row,
gint *column );
When we detect something of interest, it might be movement of the pointer, a click somewhere in the list, we can read the pointer coordinates and find out where in the list the pointer is. Cumbersome? Luckily, there is a simpler way...
As with all other widgets, there are a few signals that can be used. The GtkCList widget is derived from the GtkContainer widget, and so has all the same signals, but also the adds following:
So if we want to connect a callback to select_row, the callback function would be declared like this
void select_row_callback(GtkWidget *widget,
gint row,
gint column,
GdkEventButton *event,
gpointer data);
The callback is connected as usual with
gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT( clist),
"select_row"
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(select_row_callback),
NULL);
/* example-start clist clist.c */
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
/* User clicked the "Add List" button. */
void button_add_clicked( gpointer data )
{
int indx;
/* Something silly to add to the list. 4 rows of 2 columns each */
gchar *drink[4][2] = { { "Milk", "3 Oz" },
{ "Water", "6 l" },
{ "Carrots", "2" },
{ "Snakes", "55" } };
/* Here we do the actual adding of the text. It's done once for
* each row.
*/
for ( indx=0 ; indx < 4 ; indx++ )
gtk_clist_append( (GtkCList *) data, drink[indx]);
return;
}
/* User clicked the "Clear List" button. */
void button_clear_clicked( gpointer data )
{
/* Clear the list using gtk_clist_clear. This is much faster than
* calling gtk_clist_remove once for each row.
*/
gtk_clist_clear( (GtkCList *) data);
return;
}
/* The user clicked the "Hide/Show titles" button. */
void button_hide_show_clicked( gpointer data )
{
/* Just a flag to remember the status. 0 = currently visible */
static short int flag = 0;
if (flag == 0)
{
/* Hide the titles and set the flag to 1 */
gtk_clist_column_titles_hide((GtkCList *) data);
flag++;
}
else
{
/* Show the titles and reset flag to 0 */
gtk_clist_column_titles_show((GtkCList *) data);
flag--;
}
return;
}
/* If we come here, then the user has selected a row in the list. */
void selection_made( GtkWidget *clist,
gint row,
gint column,
GdkEventButton *event,
gpointer data )
{
gchar *text;
/* Get the text that is stored in the selected row and column
* which was clicked in. We will receive it as a pointer in the
* argument text.
*/
gtk_clist_get_text(GTK_CLIST(clist), row, column, &text);
/* Just prints some information about the selected row */
g_print("You selected row %d. More specifically you clicked in "
"column %d, and the text in this cell is %s\n\n",
row, column, text);
return;
}
int main( int argc,
gchar *argv[] )
{
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *vbox, *hbox;
GtkWidget *clist;
GtkWidget *button_add, *button_clear, *button_hide_show;
gchar *titles[2] = { "Ingredients", "Amount" };
gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
window=gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
gtk_widget_set_usize(GTK_WIDGET(window), 300, 150);
gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), "GtkCList Example");
gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT(window),
"destroy",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(gtk_main_quit),
NULL);
vbox=gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 5);
gtk_container_set_border_width(GTK_CONTAINER(vbox), 5);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), vbox);
gtk_widget_show(vbox);
/* Create the GtkCList. For this example we use 2 columns */
clist = gtk_clist_new_with_titles( 2, titles);
/* When a selection is made, we want to know about it. The callback
* used is selection_made, and its code can be found further down */
gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT(clist), "select_row",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(selection_made),
NULL);
/* It isn't necessary to shadow the border, but it looks nice :) */
gtk_clist_set_shadow_type (GTK_CLIST(clist), GTK_SHADOW_OUT);
/* What however is important, is that we set the column widths as
* they will never be right otherwise. Note that the columns are
* numbered from 0 and up (to 1 in this case).
*/
gtk_clist_set_column_width (GTK_CLIST(clist), 0, 150);
/* Add the GtkCList widget to the vertical box and show it. */
gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(vbox), clist, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
gtk_widget_show(clist);
/* Create the buttons and add them to the window. See the button
* tutorial for more examples and comments on this.
*/
hbox = gtk_hbox_new(FALSE, 0);
gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(vbox), hbox, FALSE, TRUE, 0);
gtk_widget_show(hbox);
button_add = gtk_button_new_with_label("Add List");
button_clear = gtk_button_new_with_label("Clear List");
button_hide_show = gtk_button_new_with_label("Hide/Show titles");
gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(hbox), button_add, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(hbox), button_clear, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(hbox), button_hide_show, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
/* Connect our callbacks to the three buttons */
gtk_signal_connect_object(GTK_OBJECT(button_add), "clicked",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(button_add_clicked),
(gpointer) clist);
gtk_signal_connect_object(GTK_OBJECT(button_clear), "clicked",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(button_clear_clicked),
(gpointer) clist);
gtk_signal_connect_object(GTK_OBJECT(button_hide_show), "clicked",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(button_hide_show_clicked),
(gpointer) clist);
gtk_widget_show(button_add);
gtk_widget_show(button_clear);
gtk_widget_show(button_hide_show);
/* The interface is completely set up so we show the window and
* enter the gtk_main loop.
*/
gtk_widget_show(window);
gtk_main();
return(0);
}
/* example-end */