[gtkada] Recommendation for Which Widgets To Use

[Emmanuel Briot]

Robert B. Love writes:
 > I want to have a rectangular array of numbers and or text strings
 > displayed in non-editable fields.  I also want to be able
 > to change some visual property, most likely the background color,
 > when the value is out of limits.
 > 
 > I see three possibilities. Two depend on Gtk.Table and one on
 > Gtk.Extra.Sheet.  The combinations I know of are:
 > 
 > 1) Gtk.Table and Gtk.GEntry.
 > 2) Gtk.Table and Gtk.Text.
 > 3) Gtk.Extra.Sheet.
 > 
 > Combination 1 seems the simplest but I don't see a way to change
 > the background color.  Combination 2 seems like overkill since
 > I don't need multiline editing and don't want scroll bars.  Combination
 > 3 probably has all the features I want but this also seems like
 > overkill.


I would suggest to simply use a Gtk.Clist widget, since you can change all the
font and color attributes on a cell basis. The cell are not editable, but this
is what you want.
Probably the lightweight solution would be to use this simple widget, which is
quite optimized.