[Tutor] Gtk - relational data display and edit

[Timo]

On 26-04-11 17:34, bodsda at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am reading in data from a csv file which will be in a format like this
>
> User1, attrib1, attrib2
> User2, attrib1, attrib2
> Etc.
>
> And need to display this in a window. My initial thought was to use gtk.Entry widgets because I will need to edit this data, but I don't think this will work as I will also need to read the data back, in relation to the user column, e.g I will have something like
>
> [Psuedocode]
> For I in entries:
>      A = usercolumn
>      B = attrib1column
>      C = attrib2column
>
>      Somefunction(A,B,C)
> [/psuedocode]
>
> I don't think I could use this method with entry boxes as I have no idea how many entries there will be (column length will be fixed) so I can't create the entry widgets beforehand
Use a gtk.Treeview for displaying this kind of data. You can also have 
editable cells inside a treeview so the user can change the data.

Cheers,
Timo

> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Bodsda
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