What design should be used so that a class can request one of its ancestors?

Question

I am creating a hierarchy of objects representing a table drawn on a control. My hierarchy is as follows:

Table has multiple pages
Page has multiple lines
Line has multiple cells
Cell has multiple glyph

I want to have a parameter (parameter) in a table to filter the displayed column (s). The client code might do something like this:

myTable.ShowColumns(8,12) // Will display columns 8 to 12

Displaying and placing cells in a control is the responsibility of Lines. How to pass information about which cells should be displayed from the Table object to the Line object?

Should I give each row a link to a table object? Should I try to pass information to each row in the hierarchy every time it is called Table.ShowColumns()?

Should there be an elegant way?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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ShowColumns, , Lines ( ) Lines.

// something like this..
Table.ShowCollumns -> Table.m_lines.SetVisibleColumns -> (modify visible columns)

, SetVisibleColumns Lines, : Table.FindPageWithColumns(...), .