Ruby/GTK TreeView Tutorial

This is a tutorial on how to use the Gtk::TreeView widget, adapted by Matthew Berg from the original C language version written by Tim-Philipp Müller.

• Introduction
• Components: Model, Renderer, Column, View
• Gtk::TreeModels for Data Storage: Gtk::ListStore and Gtk::TreeStore
  • How Data is Organised in a Store
  • Refering to Rows: Gtk::TreeIter, Gtk::TreePath, Gtk::TreeRowReference
  • Adding Rows to a Store
  • Manipulating Row Data
  • Retrieving Row Data
  • Removing Rows
• Creating a Tree View
  • Connecting Tree View and Model
  • Tree View Look and Feel
• Mapping Data to the Screen: GtkTreeViewColumn and GtkCellRenderer
  • Cell Renderers
  • Attributes
  • Cell Data Functions
  • Gtk::CellRendererText and Integer, TrueClass and Float Types
  • Gtk::CellRendererText, UTF8, and pango markup
  • A Working Example
  • How to Make a Whole Row Bold or Coloured
• Selections, Double-Clicks and Context Menus
  • Handling Selections
  • Double-Clicks on a Row
  • Context Menus
• Sorting?
  • Gtk::TreeSortable?
  • Gtk::TreeModelSort?
  • Sorting and Tree View Column Headers?
  • Case-insensitive String Comparing?
• Editable Cells?
  • Editable Text Cells?
  • Editable Toggle and Radio Button Cells?
  • Editable Spin Button Cells?
• Miscellaneous Tree View Tips'n'Tricks?
  • Getting the Column Number from a Tree View Column Widget?
  • Column Expander Visibility?
  • Getting the Cell Renderer a Click Event Happened On?
• Other Resources
• Copyright, License, and Credits
  • Copyright and License
  • Credits
• Changelog