Re: New sheet implementation possibilities

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 09:14:16PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> Based on recent conversations, I am of the opinion that the listbox approach
> (which I linked to earlier) is likely to be better in the long term than 
> anything based on GtkTreeView
> 
> Accordingly I have hacked up a demo based on that code.  This shows how a
> sheet can be created with an arbitrary number of rows and columns and in
> constant time and space.
> 
> If you are interested, check it out at 
> http://darrington.wattle.id.au/efficient-sheet-0.0.tar.gz
> 
> 
> The nice thing is, that it is O(1) in the number of rows and columns 
> (assuming that 
> the total rows/columns exceed the number of visible rows/columns).

It sounds very nice.

It seems that it requires a newer version of GObject (2.44+) than I have
on my system (2.42), based on its use of GListModel
G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE, so I can't easily compile it.  I guess if we're
going to require a new Glib, then I'll have to upgrade to Debian
"testing" or "unstable".  I'm willing to do that; I hope that it's not a
big deal for our users.