Gtk2::CellView(3)

💖 Gtk2::CellView 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Gtk2::CellView — it's the Perl wrapper for GtkCellView, and honestly? it's giving widget-that-shows-a-whole-row-of-cells energy. no cap. 🎀

this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, manual page Gtk2::CellView(3), and we're gonna go through every last bit of it together. grab a strawberry drink 🍓, we're doing this.

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✨ HIERARCHY ✨

the family tree, and yes we're respecting the lineage:

  Glib::Object
  +----Glib::InitiallyUnowned
       +----Gtk2::Object
            +----Gtk2::Widget
                 +----Gtk2::CellView

so it's a Glib::Object at the root, then Glib::InitiallyUnowned, then Gtk2::Object, then Gtk2::Widget, and finally our main character: Gtk2::CellView. 💅

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🦋 INTERFACES 🦋

these are the interfaces it implements, like the clubs it's a member of:

  Glib::Object::_Unregistered::AtkImplementorIface
  Gtk2::Buildable
  Gtk2::CellLayout

AtkImplementorIface, Buildable, and CellLayout. iconic trio, honestly. 👑

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🌸 METHODS 🌸

here's every method, no skips, no summarising, we're thorough in this house:

• widget = Gtk2::CellView->new — constructor time, bestie. makes you a fresh Gtk2::CellView widget with nothing special going on. ✨
• widget = Gtk2::CellView->new_with_markup ($markup) — same deal but you get to hand it some markup right off the bat.
  • $markup (string)
• widget = Gtk2::CellView->new_with_pixbuf ($pixbuf) — build it around a pixbuf. cute little image moment. 🖼️
  • $pixbuf (Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf)
• widget = Gtk2::CellView->new_with_text ($text) — or build it around plain text, lowkey the simplest vibe.
  • $text (string)
• $cell_view->set_background_color ($color) — set the background colour on this thing.
  • $color (Gtk2::Gdk::Color)
• list = $cellview->get_cell_renderers — hands you back a list of the cell renderers. 📋
• treepath = $cell_view->get_displayed_row — tells you which row is currently being displayed, as a tree path. 👀
• $cell_view->set_displayed_row ($path) — and this one sets which row is displayed.
  • $path (Gtk2::TreePath)
• treemodel or undef = $cellview->get_model — getter for the model. heads up: it can hand you undef.
  • Since: gtk+ 2.16
• $cell_view->set_model ($model) — setter for the model. and yeah, $model can be undef too, so you can yeet the model out of there.
  • $model (Gtk2::TreeModel or undef)
• requisition = $cell_view->get_size_of_row ($path) — gives you the requisition (the size it wants, basically) for a given row. 📏
  • $path (Gtk2::TreePath)

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💜 PROPERTIES 💜

the property list, fully intact, every flag and every default, because we don't do omissions here:

• 'background' (string : default undef : writable / private / static-nick / static-blurb)
  • Background color as a string
• 'background-gdk' (Gtk2::Gdk::Color : default undef : readable / writable / private / static-nick / static-blurb)
  • Background color as a GdkColor
• 'background-set' (boolean : default false : readable / writable / private / static-nick / static-blurb)
  • Whether this tag affects the background color
• 'model' (Gtk2::TreeModel : default undef : readable / writable / private / static-nick / static-blurb)
  • The model for cell view

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

go read these next, bestie, they're all connected:

Gtk2, Glib::Object, Glib::InitiallyUnowned, Gtk2::Object, Gtk2::Widget

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2003-2011 by the gtk2-perl team.

This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Gtk2 for a full notice.

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💀 real talk: this is the LGPL, so read the full notice in Gtk2 before you go doing anything wild with it. no cap.

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okay and that's the whole page, you ate that. 🎀✨

this little love letter comes to you from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — the Gtk2::CellView(3) era, and honestly? it's giving timeless. bye bestie, go build something cute. 💖🦋🌸