[maemo-developers] Problems Panning/Clicking with GtkIconView

[From: Jonathan Blake]

The solution to this, thanks to zaheerm on talk.maemo.org -
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34369:

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1st change your event connection to be "item-activated" not "selection-changed"
2nd no need to set the selection mode
3rd don't add the grid with add_with_viewport, instead use add
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Cheers!
Jon

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jonathan Blake <code177 at gmail.com> 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!