[maemo-developers] Problems Panning/Clicking with GtkIconView

[From: daniel wilms]

Hi Jonathan,

which VMWare image and SDK are you using? This was an issue in the Beta 
SDK and with the Final SDK it should work.

Cheers Daniel

ext Jonathan Blake wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am having a hell of a time trying to get an GtkIconView working 
> correctly with the pannable area widget. Using hildon.GtkIconView I am 
> able to pan by using the scrollwheel on my mouse, but if i click 
> anywhere to start panning, it immediately activates whatever was 
> clicked on. gtk.IconView does pretty much exactly the same thing. 
> Removing the connect function obviously allows you to pan freely.
>
> Code is as follows (I've left in various settings etc for 
> completeness' sake):
> ------------
> pan_area = hildon.PannableArea()
> model = gtk.ListStore(str, gtk.gdk.Pixbuf)
>
> for item in xmlf:
>     thumbnail_data = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(
> cache_path_thumbs + item["filename"])
>     model.append([str(item['name']), thumbnail_data])
>            
> grid = hildon.GtkIconView(gtk.HILDON_UI_MODE_NORMAL, model)
> grid.set_selection_mode(gtk.SELECTION_SINGLE)
> grid.set_pixbuf_column(1)
> grid.set_columns(4)
> grid.set_item_width(190)
> grid.set_spacing(thumbnail_spacing)
> grid.connect('selection-changed', self.thumbnailSelect, model, window)
> pan_area.add_with_viewport(grid)
> ------------
>
> Points of note: I'm using the Vmware SDK. I know that has a few bugs 
> so maybe this is one of them. As mentioned, the scrollwheel does pan 
> the area, so pannable area is working as intended.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? this is a pretty critical issue and I 
> don't know of anyone else who's managed to get this working.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!