# 1/2 OFF TOPIC - gnome and table/spreadsheet widget

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-2-off-topic-gnome-and-table-spreadsheet-widget/150831>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [October 13, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-2-off-topic-gnome-and-table-spreadsheet-widget/150831 "2008-10-13T23:23:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![prhlava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@prhlava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prhlava)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-2-off-topic-gnome-and-table-spreadsheet-widget/150831/1 "2008-10-13T23:23:12Z")

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Hello,

To the best of my understanding, the GNOME does not have a “full blown”  
table widget (I mean something like spreadsheet table). But applications  
like Gnumeric exist, so this is doable.

I am just curious, how do you deal with programming an aplication using  
ruby-gnome2 to have a table fuctionality (something along the lines of  
FXTable widget from Fox)?

I found:  
GtkSheet: [http://gtkextra.sourceforge.net](http://gtkextra.sourceforge.net)

Kind regards,

Vlad

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**Author:** ![prhlava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@prhlava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prhlava)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-2-off-topic-gnome-and-table-spreadsheet-widget/150831/2 "2008-10-14T17:55:57Z")

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See [http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/146338](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/146338)

GtkSheet, AFAIK, is for gtk 1.

I’ve done it myself with Gtk::Treeview and a few signal handling, but  
I’m only using a few columns (\<10) and never more than 20 rows.

Maz

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**Author:** ![prhlava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@prhlava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prhlava)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-2-off-topic-gnome-and-table-spreadsheet-widget/150831/3 "2008-10-14T21:08:27Z")

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Hello Simon,

Thank you for the links and pointers…

Cheers,

Vlad