Re: [platform-swt-dev] GTK List is done

[Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve_Northover@xxxxxxx writes:
> First off - it's fortunate that I don't care about building Eclipse!

Heh - welcome to another open source cultural mainstay - long mailing
list arguments of dubious value. ;-)
 
> I did search Google for gtk_clist_moveto()to find out what people were
> saying (Google also searches groups) but couldn't find a discussion of the
> suggested work around.  It's a pain of course, leads to "duplication of 
> state"
> and probably flashes - wait till it's visible, then scroll.  So, I'm going 
> to hold off
> on the work around in SWT for now but keep the suggestion in mind.

I'd suggest doing the moveto in response to the "map" signal, but
connect _after_ to that signal. i.e. gtk_signal_connect_after(), not
gtk_signal_connect(). That should work reasonably well.

> Do you know the exact reason it fails in GTK?  For example, on Windows, 
> way
> back in 3.11, the text widget had this bug and it was related to the size 
> of the widget
> (a zero/small sized widget did not know how to scroll).

I don't remember exactly; CList is just a rat's nest of code - methods
tend to have odd side effects or preconditions. It was wholesale
replaced for 2.0 (new widget added alongside, CList remains for back
compat of course).

Havoc