11.6. Setting text and pixmaps in the cells

A cell can contain a pixmap, text or both. To set them the following functions are used.

void gtk_clist_set_text( GtkCList    *clist,
                         gint         row,
                         gint         column,
                         const gchar *text );

void gtk_clist_set_pixmap( GtkCList  *clist,
                           gint       row,
                           gint       column,
                           GdkPixmap *pixmap,
                           GdkBitmap *mask );

void gtk_clist_set_pixtext( GtkCList  *clist,
                            gint       row,
                            gint       column,
                            gchar     *text,
                            guint8     spacing,
                            GdkPixmap *pixmap,
                            GdkBitmap *mask );

It's quite straightforward. All the calls have the CList as the first argument, followed by the row and column of the cell, followed by the data to be set. The spacing argument in gtk_clist_set_pixtext is the number of pixels between the pixmap and the beginning of the text. In all cases the data is copied into the widget.

To read back the data, we instead use

gint gtk_clist_get_text( GtkCList  *clist,
                         gint       row,
                         gint       column,
                         gchar    **text );

gint gtk_clist_get_pixmap( GtkCList   *clist,
                           gint        row,
                           gint        column,
                           GdkPixmap **pixmap,
                           GdkBitmap **mask );

gint gtk_clist_get_pixtext( GtkCList   *clist,
                            gint        row,
                            gint        column,
                            gchar     **text,
                            guint8     *spacing,
                            GdkPixmap **pixmap,
                            GdkBitmap **mask );

The returned pointers are all pointers to the data stored within the widget, so the referenced data should not be modified or released. It isn't necessary to read it all back in case you aren't interested. Any of the pointers that are meant for return values (all except the clist) can be NULL. So if we want to read back only the text from a cell that is of type pixtext, then we would do the following, assuming that clist, row and column already exist:

gchar *mytext;

gtk_clist_get_pixtext(clist, row, column, &mytext, NULL, NULL, NULL);

There is one more call that is related to what's inside a cell in the clist, and that's

GtkCellType gtk_clist_get_cell_type( GtkCList *clist,
                                     gint      row,
                                     gint      column );

which returns the type of data in a cell. The return value is one of

  GTK_CELL_EMPTY
  GTK_CELL_TEXT
  GTK_CELL_PIXMAP
  GTK_CELL_PIXTEXT
  GTK_CELL_WIDGET

There is also a function that will let us set the indentation, both vertical and horizontal, of a cell. The indentation value is of type gint, given in pixels, and can be both positive and negative.

void gtk_clist_set_shift( GtkCList *clist,
                          gint      row,
                          gint      column,
                          gint      vertical,
                          gint      horizontal );