diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 9d4a986..dd9fd46 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -1789,6 +1789,100 @@ proc main =
 main() # 123 lines
 ----
 
+== A Listview example using a CellDataFunction
+
+This example shows how a CellDataFunction can be used to
+customize cells of a Tree- or Listview.
+
+[[celldatafunction.nim]]
+[source,nim]
+.celldatafunction.nim
+----
+# This example shows how to apply a CellDataFunc to a GtkTreeView
+# C example code was provided by A.Krause in chapter 8 of his book
+import gintro/[gtk, gobject, glib]
+
+const
+  Color = 0
+  Columns = 1
+  clr = ["00", "33", "66", "99", "CC", "FF"]
+
+proc bye(w: Window) =
+  mainQuit()
+  echo "Bye..."
+
+proc toStringVal(s: string): Value =
+  let gtype = gStringGetType() # typeFromName("gchararray")
+  discard init(result, gtype)
+  setString(result, s)
+
+proc toBoolVal(b: bool): Value =
+  let gtype = gBooleanGetType() # typeFromName("gboolean")
+  discard init(result, gtype)
+  setBoolean(result, b)
+
+# our Nim function
+proc cellDataFuncN(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer;
+                  model: TreeModel; iter: TreeIter, data: TreeViewColumn) =
+  ##  Get the color string stored by the column and make it the foreground color.
+  # for testing that optional args work, we pass a TreeViewColumn and echo its title
+  echo data.title
+  var val: Value
+  model.getValue(iter, Color, val) 
+  let text = val.getString
+  val.unset # is this necessary?
+  setProperty(renderer, "foreground", toStringVal("#FFFFFF"))
+  setProperty(renderer, "foreground-set", toBoolVal(true))
+  setProperty(renderer, "background", toStringVal(text))
+  setProperty(renderer, "background-set", toBoolVal(true))
+  setProperty(renderer, "text", toStringVal(text))
+
+##  Add three columns to the GtkTreeView. All three of the columns will be
+##  displayed as text, although one is a gboolean value and another is
+##  an integer.
+proc setupTreeView(treeview: TreeView) =
+  let renderer = gtk.newCellRendererText()
+  let column = newTreeViewColumn()
+  column.title = "Standard Colors"
+  column.packStart(renderer, expand = true)
+  column.addAttribute(renderer, "text", Color)
+  discard treeview.appendColumn(column)
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer, cellDataFuncN, column)
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer) # test unsetting!
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer, nil)
+  column.unsetCellDataFunc(renderer)
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer, cellDataFuncN, column)
+
+proc main =
+  var iter: TreeIter
+  gtk.init()
+  let window = newWindow()
+  window.setTitle("Color List")
+  window.setBorderWidth(10)
+  window.setSizeRequest(250, 175)
+  window.connect("destroy", bye)
+  let treeview = newTreeView()
+  setupTreeView(treeview)
+  let gtype = typeFromName("gchararray")
+  let store = newListStore(Columns, cast[pointer](unsafeaddr gtype)) # ugly cast
+  ##  Add all of the products to the GtkListStore.
+  for i in 0 ..< 6:
+    for j in 0 ..< 6:
+      for k in 0 ..< 6:
+        let color: string = "#" & clr[i] & clr[j] & clr[k]
+        store.append(iter)
+        store.setValue(iter, Color, toStringVal(color))
+  treeView.setModel(store)
+  let scrolledWin = newScrolledWindow(nil, nil)
+  scrolledWin.setPolicy(PolicyType.automatic, PolicyType.automatic)
+  scrolledWin.add(treeview)
+  window.add(scrolledWin)
+  window.showAll
+  gtk.main()
+
+main() 
+----
+
 == A more advanced example for cairo drawing with zooming, panning, scrolling
 
 The following code is a plain Nim version of a drawing demo which I wrote some years ago in Ruby (http://ssalewski.de/PetEd-Demo.html.en).
diff --git a/examples/gtk3/celldatafunction.nim b/examples/gtk3/celldatafunction.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9c7fb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/gtk3/celldatafunction.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+# This example shows how to apply a CellDataFunc to a GtkTreeView
+# C example code was provided by A.Krause in chapter 8 of his book
+import gintro/[gtk, gobject, glib]
+
+const
+  Color = 0
+  Columns = 1
+  clr = ["00", "33", "66", "99", "CC", "FF"]
+
+proc bye(w: Window) =
+  mainQuit()
+  echo "Bye..."
+
+proc toStringVal(s: string): Value =
+  let gtype = gStringGetType() # typeFromName("gchararray")
+  discard init(result, gtype)
+  setString(result, s)
+
+proc toBoolVal(b: bool): Value =
+  let gtype = gBooleanGetType() # typeFromName("gboolean")
+  discard init(result, gtype)
+  setBoolean(result, b)
+
+# our Nim function
+proc cellDataFuncN(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer;
+                  model: TreeModel; iter: TreeIter, data: TreeViewColumn) =
+  ##  Get the color string stored by the column and make it the foreground color.
+  # for testing that optional args work, we pass a TreeViewColumn and echo its title
+  echo data.title
+  var val: Value
+  model.getValue(iter, Color, val) 
+  let text = val.getString
+  val.unset # is this necessary?
+  setProperty(renderer, "foreground", toStringVal("#FFFFFF"))
+  setProperty(renderer, "foreground-set", toBoolVal(true))
+  setProperty(renderer, "background", toStringVal(text))
+  setProperty(renderer, "background-set", toBoolVal(true))
+  setProperty(renderer, "text", toStringVal(text))
+
+##  Add three columns to the GtkTreeView. All three of the columns will be
+##  displayed as text, although one is a gboolean value and another is
+##  an integer.
+proc setupTreeView(treeview: TreeView) =
+  let renderer = gtk.newCellRendererText()
+  let column = newTreeViewColumn()
+  column.title = "Standard Colors"
+  column.packStart(renderer, expand = true)
+  column.addAttribute(renderer, "text", Color)
+  discard treeview.appendColumn(column)
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer, cellDataFuncN, column)
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer) # test unsetting!
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer, nil)
+  column.unsetCellDataFunc(renderer)
+  column.setCellDataFunc(renderer, cellDataFuncN, column)
+
+proc main =
+  var iter: TreeIter
+  gtk.init()
+  let window = newWindow()
+  window.setTitle("Color List")
+  window.setBorderWidth(10)
+  window.setSizeRequest(250, 175)
+  window.connect("destroy", bye)
+  let treeview = newTreeView()
+  setupTreeView(treeview)
+  let gtype = typeFromName("gchararray")
+  let store = newListStore(Columns, cast[pointer](unsafeaddr gtype)) # ugly cast
+  ##  Add all of the products to the GtkListStore.
+  for i in 0 ..< 6:
+    for j in 0 ..< 6:
+      for k in 0 ..< 6:
+        let color: string = "#" & clr[i] & clr[j] & clr[k]
+        store.append(iter)
+        store.setValue(iter, Color, toStringVal(color))
+  treeView.setModel(store)
+  let scrolledWin = newScrolledWindow(nil, nil)
+  scrolledWin.setPolicy(PolicyType.automatic, PolicyType.automatic)
+  scrolledWin.add(treeview)
+  window.add(scrolledWin)
+  window.showAll
+  gtk.main()
+
+main() 
diff --git a/gintro/gimpl.nim b/gintro/gimpl.nim
index 0fe98b1..a593e73 100644
--- a/gintro/gimpl.nim
+++ b/gintro/gimpl.nim
@@ -302,3 +302,122 @@ proc $1(a: $2): culong {.discardable.} =
 $1($4)
 """ % [$procName, ats, $procNameCdecl, $arg]
   result = parseStmt(r1s & r2s)
+
+###################################################
+
+### CellDataFunc,
+# see https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkTreeViewColumn.html#gtk-tree-view-column-set-cell-data-func
+
+# the low level GTK interface:
+# proc cellDataFunc(column00: ptr TreeViewColumn00; renderer00: ptr CellRenderer00;
+#   model00: ptr TreeModel00; iter: TreeIter; data: pointer) {.cdecl.}
+
+# unset -- the macro can do this already
+proc unsetCellDataFunc*(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer) =
+  setCellDataFunc(column, renderer, nil, nil, nil)
+
+# set a function with this parameter list and one more optional argument
+# proc cellDataFunc(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer; model: TreeModel; iter: TreeIter)
+# if there is no optional arg, then we make it a pointer with nil value.
+# if arg is a ref, then we apply GC_ref() and pass it
+# if arg is a ptr, then we pass it. (but we never free that object)
+# if arg is a value type, then we replace it with a copy of a ref type to guaranty lifetime
+macro setCellDataFunc*(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer; fn: untyped = nil; arg: typed = nil): untyped =
+
+  if fn == nil: # unset
+    result = parseStmt("setCellDataFunc($1, $2, nil, nil, nil)" % [$column, $renderer])
+    return
+
+  var CdfID {.compileTime, global.}: int # unique id for our generated cell data functions
+  inc(CdfID)
+  var ats: string # the type of optional argument as string (arg type string)
+  var argStr: string # the value of optional argument as string
+  var atsfix: string # we have to prefix with "ref " if arg is avalue type 
+  if arg == nil: # no optional argument, so fake a nil pointer
+    argStr = "nil"
+    ats = "pointer"
+  else:
+    argStr = $(arg.toStrLit)
+    ats = $getTypeInst(arg).toStrLit
+
+    if getTypeInst(arg).typeKind != ntyRef and getTypeInst(arg).typeKind != ntyPtr:
+      atsFix = "ref "
+
+  let procName = "celldatafunc_" & $CdfID # our init code
+  let procNameCdecl = "celldatafunc_cdecl_" & $CdfID # the proc that is called from GTK
+  var procNameDestroy: string # the proc that GTK calls when we unset the cellDataFunc
+  # first we generate the destroy proc
+  var r0s: string
+
+  # GTK should unref the optional argument later, so we generate a destroy proc which GTK can call
+  if arg != nil and getTypeInst(arg).typeKind != ntyPtr:
+    procNameDestroy = "celldatafunc_destroy" & $CdfID
+    r0s ="""
+proc $1(p: pointer) {.cdecl.} =
+  # echo "GC_Unref(arg)"
+  GC_Unref(cast[$2](p))
+""" % [$procNameDestroy, atsFix & ats]
+  else:
+    procNameDestroy = "nil"
+    r0s = ""
+
+# now we generate the proc which GTK will call for each cell of the treeview. g_object_get_qdata() is
+# the GTK function which retrieves the Nim proxy objects from the plain GTK data objects.
+  var r1s = """
+proc $1(column00: ptr TreeViewColumn00; renderer00: ptr CellRenderer00;
+                  model00: ptr TreeModel00; iter: TreeIter; pdata: pointer) {.cdecl.} =
+  let column = cast[TreeViewColumn](g_object_get_qdata(column00, Quark))
+  let renderer = cast[CellRenderer](g_object_get_qdata(renderer00, Quark))
+  let model = cast[TreeModel](g_object_get_qdata(model00, Quark))
+""" % [$procNameCdecl]
+  if arg == nil:
+    r1s.add """
+  $1(column, renderer, model, iter) # call the user provided Nim proc
+""" % [$fn]
+  elif getTypeInst(arg).typeKind == ntyRef or getTypeInst(arg).typeKind == ntyPtr:
+    r1s.add """
+  let a = cast[$2](pdata)
+  $1(column, renderer, model, iter, a) # call the user provided Nim proc
+""" % [$fn, ats]
+  else: # arg was a value type, but we pass a copy of ref type
+    r1s.add """
+  let a = cast[ref $2](pdata)[]
+  $1(column, renderer, model, iter, a) # call the user provided Nim proc
+""" % [$fn, ats]
+
+# this is basically only a code block which is called for initialization, mostly
+# making a deep copy of optional argument when argumant is not a ref
+  var r2s: string
+  if arg == nil:
+    r2s ="""
+proc $1(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer; pdata: $2) =
+    setCellDataFunc($3, $4, $5, nil, nil)
+$1(column, renderer, $6)
+""" % [$procName, ats, $column, $renderer, $procNameCdecl, argStr, $procNameDestroy]
+  elif getTypeInst(arg).typeKind == ntyPtr:
+    r2s ="""
+proc $1(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer; pdata: $2) =
+    setCellDataFunc($3, $4, $5, cast[pointer](pdata), $7)
+$1(column, renderer, $6)
+""" % [$procName, ats, $column, $renderer, $procNameCdecl, argStr, $procNameDestroy]
+  elif getTypeInst(arg).typeKind == ntyRef:
+    r2s ="""
+proc $1(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer; pdata: $2) =
+    if not pdata.isNil: # or pdata is pointer):
+      GC_ref(pdata)
+    setCellDataFunc($3, $4, $5, cast[pointer](pdata), $7)
+$1(column, renderer, $6)
+""" % [$procName, ats, $column, $renderer, $procNameCdecl, argStr, $procNameDestroy]
+  else: # arg is value object
+    r2s ="""
+proc $1(column: TreeViewColumn; renderer: CellRenderer; pdata: $2) =
+    var ar: ref $2
+    new(ar)
+    deepCopy(ar[], pdata)
+    GC_ref(ar)
+    setCellDataFunc($3, $4, $5, cast[pointer](ar), $7)
+$1(column, renderer, $6)
+""" % [$procName, ats, $column, $renderer, $procNameCdecl, argStr, $procNameDestroy]
+
+  result = parseStmt(r0s & r1s & r2s)
+# 423 lines
\ No newline at end of file