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# Working with selections

There are also functions available that let us force the (un)selection of a row. These are

    void gtk_clist_select_row( GtkCList *clist,
                               gint      row,
                               gint      column );

    void gtk_clist_unselect_row( GtkCList *clist,
                                 gint      row,
                                 gint      column );

And also a function that will take x and y coordinates (for example, read from the mousepointer), and map that onto the list, returning the corresponding row and column.

    gint gtk_clist_get_selection_info( GtkCList *clist,
                                       gint      x,
                                       gint      y,
                                       gint     *row,
                                       gint     *column );

When we detect something of interest (it might be movement of the pointer, a click somewhere in the list) we can read the pointer coordinates and find out where in the list the pointer is. Cumbersome? Luckily, there is a simpler way...

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