gtk-databindings work blog and ramblings

I completely stopped working on 1 and there were no more updates. Version 2 would already be out if there weren’t few showstoppers. But now I simply decided it is not important to me anymore as I can’t really do anything about fixing them.

New things in version 2…
- Real MVC approach to TreeModels with QueryModelAttribute and shells from which one can derive its own models by simply overriding 3-5 methods which provide data. QueryModelAttribute is far more than just attribute. It registers your model with specific data type and this means auto creation of it as soon as one specifies ItemsDataSource=myData
- Query models for arrays, lists, DataView, DataTable
- Registration of views for data so treeview column mapping can now simply be {MyType} #viewname# and it reads attribute description for that type and gets its columns defined by that view
- Sort and Filter observable lists (both generic and non generic ones). Simply connect Filter to some Observable list and here is live filtering, same goes for sorting
- DbObservableList, simply wraps DataTable or DataView and you use it like ordinary list, which is in effect compatible with filter and sort lists
- TypedDataTable, generic variant of DataTable
- Complete widget creation framework (by using drawing cells). Complex widget creation as in monodevelop mostly sucks because you’re imposing complex windowing architecture and thus your application consumes more ram and cpu. Same cells are reusable with reports in cairo, cellrenderers and classic widgets
- Widget style cells, which enable one to draw entry or button look alike in matter of one line.
- Various description attributes
- Various new widgets (like for example, usable DateEntry)
- Widget and Cell Factory for autogeneration of widgets based on property description
- DataAutoWidget, which generates its workings based on the property it edits
- Few cell renderers
and so on, practically this is just few changes, not all…
Basically v2 and v1 differ for more than 100% of functionallity and this is the reason why I stopped working on v1 and worked silently on v2. V2 will maybe need few lines edited, but otherwise is 99.99% compatible with v1

Showstoppers I don’t care about:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510176
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523306

First one simply doesn’t allow full functionality for databinding to be effective as there is no correct delegating.
Second one is already in progress of fixing

Now I just have to clean up some things and v2 is out.
Plan after v2? v2.1
- LESS FUNCTIONALITY, MORE DOCUMENTATION…
- fixing things if needed
- AutoLayoutContainer (sharing the same workings as TreeView columns)
- Property grid
- More cellrenderers and more custom widgets (now that drawing cell approach is working… easy)
- Preparing for Gtk#3