On Apr 14, 2008, at 18:41, Jamie Lahowetz wrote:
> I have been struggling with this and I just cant seem to figure what
> the problem is. I have this IRC client that wont scroll far enough
> down to show the full text. Its rather hard to explain but I'll give
> it a try:
> when you get down to the bottom on the textview and you go to enter
> a message such as:
> John(10:00:00) I have to go to the story today and get some fruit.
> And this message is the last one to be entered before the bottom of
> the window therefore causing it to have to scroll down, the program
> only shows the first line:
> John(10:00:00) I have to go to the story
> Forcing the user to scroll down to view the rest:
> today and get some fruit.
> You can see that this would be a problem when users are chatting,
> having to always take your attention off of the session just to
> scroll down and view the whole message. Currently the program uses
> the code $chat_textview->scroll_to_mark where mark is defined as the
> end iter of the buffer. I cant figure how to get this to work and
> show the whole text without the user having to manually scroll down.
> I am wondering if the word wrapping is causing it since this
> behavior is true for a single unwrapped line. I would appreciate any
> help on this since it seems like such a simple thing and I cant
> figure it.
>
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Try using
$chat_textview->scroll_to_iter($chat_buffer->get_end_iter);
you might also try
$chat_textview->scroll_to_mark( $chat_buffer->get_mark('end'), 0.5,
TRUE, 0.0, 1.0 );
but I am not sure I understand the docs on that parameter.
--
Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.
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