I want to have the first row of a Gtk.TreeView
selected upon a button press. I'm aware that this is possible using row_activated
, however row_activated
takes a Gtk.TreePath
and a Gtk.TreeViewColumn
(which I assume can be set to None
). The issue is that I do not know how to get the Gtk.TreePath
of the first row.
class Main(Gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
liststore = Gtk.ListStore(str)
liststore.append(['first_entry'])
liststore.append(['second_entry'])
liststore.append(['third_entry'])
treeview = Gtk.TreeView()
treeview.set_model(liststore)
renderer = Gtk.CellRendererText()
column = Gtk.TreeViewColumn('Item', renderer, text=0)
treeview.append_column(column)
button = Gtk.Button(label='button')
box = Gtk.Box()
box.set_orientation(Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL)
box.add(button)
box.add(treeview)
self.add(box)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main = Main()
main.show_all()
Gtk.main()
In this case, when the button is pressed, I want first_entry
(which is the first row) to be selected
CodePudding user response:
I found treeview.set_cursor(0)
in question: Python GTK: How to set a selected row on gtk.treeview - Stack Overflow and I think it can be better solution.
BTW: you have to use self.
to access treeview
in function executed by button.
import gi
gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gtk
class Main(Gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
liststore = Gtk.ListStore(str)
liststore.append(['first_entry'])
liststore.append(['second_entry'])
liststore.append(['third_entry'])
self.treeview = Gtk.TreeView()
self.treeview.set_model(liststore)
renderer = Gtk.CellRendererText()
column = Gtk.TreeViewColumn('Item', renderer, text=0)
self.treeview.append_column(column)
button = Gtk.Button(label='button')
button.connect('clicked', self.select_first)
box = Gtk.Box()
box.set_orientation(Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL)
box.add(button)
box.add(self.treeview)
self.add(box)
def select_first(self, event):
self.treeview.set_cursor(0)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main = Main()
main.show_all()
Gtk.main()
Doc for set_cursor() for C/C (but can be useful).
It seems original set_cursor()
also needs TreePath
but in Python it works with index
. Other functions don't have to work with index
instead of TreePath
EDIT:
I found you can create TreePath
using index
- as list
or string
def select_first(self, event):
path = Gtk.TreePath.new_from_indices([0]) # it needs list because trees can be nestes, ie. [0,5,3]
#path = Gtk.TreePath.new_from_string("0") # for nested trees it can be ie. "0:5:3"
selection = self.treeview.get_selection()
selection.select_path(path)
EDIT:
If you use self.
when you create self.column = Gtk.TreeViewColumn('Item', renderer, text=0)
then you can use it with row_activated()
but this doesn't select row on my computer (but doesn't raise error)
def select_first(self, event):
path = Gtk.TreePath.new_from_indices([0])
self.treeview.row_activated(path, self.column)
Full code which I used for tests:
# https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/Gtk-3.0/classes/TreeSelection.html#gtk-treeselection
# https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/Gtk-3.0/classes/TreePath.html#Gtk.TreePath.new_from_indices
import gi
gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gtk
class Main(Gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit)
liststore = Gtk.ListStore(str)
liststore.append(['first_entry'])
liststore.append(['second_entry'])
liststore.append(['third_entry'])
self.treeview = Gtk.TreeView()
self.treeview.set_model(liststore)
renderer = Gtk.CellRendererText()
self.column = Gtk.TreeViewColumn('Item', renderer, text=0)
self.treeview.append_column(self.column)
button1 = Gtk.Button(label='First')
button1.connect('clicked', self.select_first)
button2 = Gtk.Button(label='Second')
button2.connect('clicked', self.select_second)
button3 = Gtk.Button(label='Third')
button3.connect('clicked', self.select_third)
box = Gtk.Box()
box.set_orientation(Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL)
box.add(button1)
box.add(button2)
box.add(button3)
box.add(self.treeview)
self.add(box)
def select_first(self, event):
self.treeview.set_cursor(0)
def select_second(self, event):
path = Gtk.TreePath.new_from_indices([1]) # it needs list because trees can be nestes, ie. [0,5,3]
path = Gtk.TreePath.new_from_string("1") # for nested trees it can be ie. "0:5:3"
selection = self.treeview.get_selection()
selection.select_path(path)
def select_third(self, event):
path = Gtk.TreePath.new_from_indices([2]) # it needs list because trees can be nestes, ie. [0,5,3]
self.treeview.row_activated(path, self.column)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main = Main()
main.show_all()
Gtk.main()