#+TITLE: GTK-3 Treeview in treestore mode #+DATE: 2014-04-14 12:00:00 UTC #+DESCRIPTION: Load a glade file displaying a collection of values in a treeview using the treestore hierarchy. #+FILETAGS: GTK-3:python:widgets #+CATEGORY: python #+SLUG: 10-treeview-treestore-mode #+THUMBNAIL: ../../../images/gtk/tut10-treeview-treestore.png #+BEGIN_COMMENT .. title: GTK-3 Treeview in treestore mode .. slug: 10-treeview-treestore-mode .. date: 2014-04-14 12:00:00 UTC .. tags: GTK-3, python, widgets .. category: python .. description: Load a glade file displaying a collection of values in a treeview using the treestore hierarchy. .. type: text #+END_COMMENT #+CAPTION: Treeview in tree mode [[../../../images/gtk/tut10-treeview-treestore.png]] The code below will populate the treeview widget with a tree like structure which you can expand and collapse, double clicking will retrieve the selected node in the tree. #+BEGIN_SRC python #!/usr/bin/env python from gi.repository import Gtk, GLib class application_gui: """Tutorial 10 text input, display a treeview in expandable tree format.""" count = 0 def __init__(self): #load in our glade interface xml = Gtk.Builder() xml.add_from_file('tut10.glade') #grab our widget using get_object this is the name of the widget from glade, window1 is the default name self.window = xml.get_object('window1') self.text = xml.get_object('entry1') #load our widgets from the glade file self.widgets = {} self.widgets['treeview'] = xml.get_object('treeview1') treeview(self.widgets['treeview'], self.text) #connect to events, in this instance just quit our application self.window.connect('delete_event', Gtk.main_quit) self.window.connect('destroy', lambda quit: Gtk.main_quit()) #show the window else there is nothing to see :) self.window.show() class treeview: treeview = None treemodel = None selected = 'workspace' def __init__(self, treeview, entry): self.entry = entry self.treeview = treeview self.treeview.connect('row-activated', self.selection) self.treeview.connect('button_press_event', self.mouse_click) #create a storage model in this case a treemodel self.treemodel = Gtk.TreeStore(str) self.treeview.set_model(self.treemodel) #add columns usually only one in case of the treeview column = Gtk.TreeViewColumn("Objects") self.treeview.append_column(column) #add in a text renderer so we can see the items we add cell = Gtk.CellRendererText() column.pack_start(cell, False) column.add_attribute(cell, "text", 0) self.populate() self.menu() def populate(self): self.treemodel.clear() #populate the treeview with a largish tree for item1 in range(0, 5): iter_level_1 = self.append_tree('Item ' + str(item1)) for item2 in range(0, 5): iter_level_2 = self.append_tree('Sub Item ' + str(item2), iter_level_1) for item3 in range(0, 5): self.append_tree('Sub Sub Item ' + str(item3), iter_level_2) def append_tree(self, name, parent=None): """ append to the treeview if parent is null append to root level. if parent is a valid iter (possibly returned from previous append) then append under the parent """ myiter = self.treemodel.insert_after(parent, None) self.treemodel.set_value(myiter, 0, name) return myiter def menu(self): """ popover menu shown on right clicking a treeview item. """ self.treeview_menu = Gtk.Menu() for item in range(0, 5): menu_item = Gtk.MenuItem("Menu " + str(item)) self.treeview_menu.append(menu_item) def mouse_click(self, tv, event): if event.button == 3: # right mouse button pressed popup the menu self.treeview_menu.show_all() self.treeview_menu.popup(None, None, None, None, 1, 0) def selection(self, tv, treepath, tvcolumn): """ on double click get the value of the item we clicked """ model = tv.get_model() treeiter = model.get_iter(treepath) self.selected = model.get_value(treeiter, 0) self.entry.set_text(self.selected) application = application_gui() Gtk.main() #+END_SRC