Forum: Ruby-Gnome 2 Gdk::DataSelection, array?

hi all,

  a question about setting #DataSelection in a drag and drop... can i
drag an array?

  i'm making a music directory browser, and i've got a TreeView with a
bunch of song titles in it set as a drag source.  the TreeView is set
for multiple selection.
  the thing is, i'm not interested in dragging the titles, but rather
the full paths to the songs - so...
  i set up a hash, with the keys being the song titles, and the paths as
the values.  then, in the TreeView#signal_connect("drag_data_get")
block, i load all the song titles selected into an array, which is then
passed through a block which treats each song title as a key, and passes
the key's value (the song's path) into another array.
  what i'm trying to do is pass this array of paths into the
Gdk::DataSelection associated with the "drag_data_get" block.
  sorry if my explanation hasn't made too much sense - basically i just
want to drag an array!
  here's a look at what i'm working with:

#############
# (@view is my TreeView, @listselection is the TreeView#selection

    @selarray = []
    @hash = {}
    @dragdata = []

Gtk::Drag.source_set(@view, Gdk::Window::BUTTON1_MASK,
  [["text/plain", 0, 0]],
  Gdk::DragContext::ACTION_COPY|Gdk::DragContext::ACTION_MOVE
)

@view.signal_connect("drag_data_get") {|w, c, data, i, t|
  @listselection.selected_each{|m, path, iter| @selarray << iter[0]}
  @selarray.collect{|entry| @dragdata << @hash[entry]}
  data.set(Gdk::Selection::TYPE_STRING, @dragdata.to_s)
}
##############

  this *works*, but returns a string of the array (obviously, as the
last line would indicate,) and not the array itself.  i've searched
through the Gdk::Selection types, and the Gdk::DataSelection methods,
but haven't seen anything that lets me pass the array as an array rather
than a string.

  any ideas?  is this just a ridiculous thing to do in the first place?

  thanks -

 -j

One thing off the top of my head is that using the
title of the song as a key isn't going to work all
the time.  I have several songs with the same name
(for some reason if you are Japanese you *have* to write
a song called "Rainbow" ;-)

What I have done in the past is create a ListStore where the first
column is the actual object that I want to select.  The
remaining columns contain the data I want.  I don't render
the first column.  When a row is selected, I take the object
out from the first column of the ListStore.

Hope that helps!

         MikeC

Mike Charlton wrote in post #992904:
> One thing off the top of my head is that using the
> title of the song as a key isn't going to work all
> the time.

  good point...

> What I have done in the past is create a ListStore where the first
> column is the actual object that I want to select.

  good idea...

> Hope that helps!

  sure does...  thanks for the idea - i'll get crackin' on it and see 
what i come up with.

  thanks again,

 -j

Ok, I have a weird one this wasn't a problem under Ruby 1.8.6. On our
newest release I am playing with
See the subject line, when ever I am closing down my Ruby GTK app, it
get the following message

warning instance variable __windows__not initialized
Segmentation fault(core dump)

First off, I am running on RHEL 5.4, with Ruby 1.9.2-p180, and
ruby-gnome2-all_0.90.5
(I am stuck on 0.90.5 because this app has lots of canvas objects in it)

The stack trace of the ruby interpreter doesn't help me much. I think it
is in the garbage collection. I have a very similar non GTK app that
oesn't have an of this problems.

So there are tons of variables in this. I was just wondering if anyone
had seen this message before

warning instance variable __windows__not initialized

I did a google on it and found some old references. Anyone have a clue
as to what this could be?

Thanks
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Not everything works fine in the app, it seems to be just on shutdown.
And it seems to have gotten through all my code. It happens after the
Gtk::Main_quit


-grant

Oops I meant to say everything works fine in the app. Its just at
shutdown. As usual, ask a problem and you end up figuring it out
yourself. I was missing my calling destroy on a class that had a bunch
of Gtk::Menu.new objects. With Gtk 0.95 it still had the bug where not
calling destroy on this guy make it core dump.

Anyways, sorry to waste your bandwidth.