You can also use gtk_text_get_length(GTK_TEXT(text)) to get the number of
characters.
Cheers.
Rick Esquibel
Embedded Software/Engineer
5000 E. McDowell Road
Mesa, AZ 85215-9797
(480) 891-8423
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> 1. Re: GtkText Problems Update ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 2. Re: drawing speed under Windows (Ron Steinke)
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> 4. Re: drawing speed under Windows (Havoc Pennington)
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> 10. RE: GtkText Problems Update (Dugas, Alan)
> 11. A question on GtkText bindings (Eamonn Martin Galvin)
> 12. How to access to a check button label (Germano Rizzo)
> 13. Re: How to access to a check button label (Jeff Shipman)
> 14. Re: Position of TOP_LEVEL window (porte cyril)
> 15. Re: How to access to a check button label (Germano Rizzo)
> 16. Re: How to access to a check button label (Sven Neumann)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:04:42 -0500
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> Subject: Re: GtkText Problems Update
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> Ignore the last question. I figured it out I hope.
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>
> char *temp = gtk_editable_get_chars( GTK_EDITABLE( text ), 0, -1);
> int size = strlen(temp);
> gtk_text_backward_delete( GTK_TEXT( text ), size );
>
> I think that this should work.
> Is there a better way.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hello.
> > I am having a problem with GtkText. I have a Text Box, which is
> updated bu a function finding errors in a script. If errors are found a
> dialog box appears with all the errors in the Text Box. If I close this
> dialog box, and try to parse the script again, naturally it should have
> the same errors and does, however the errors are added on to the end of
> the existing information in the text box, meaning that the smae errors are
> printed twice. I want the Text Box to be cleared before each parseing. I
> tried gtk_entry_set_text() but it would not accept the typecasting of a
> GtkText to GtkEntry.
> > I then tried gtk_text_backward_delete(), however I do not know how
> many characters will be in the textBox, therefore cannot specify this. I
> tried setting a very high value such as 1, but this didn't work. I
> also tried -1, thinking that it might mean delete all character as in
> gtk_text_insert, which also didnt work.
> >
> > Any ideas how I can empyt the TextBox.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ciaran
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> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:29:19 -0800
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> Subject: Re: drawing speed under Windows
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> From: Ron Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > From: Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Deborah Swayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > The use of plural drawing routines (draw_points instead of
> > > draw_point, etc) improves drawing speed **twenty-fold** for
> > > Windows versions of gtk programs.
> >
> > The reason draw_points() etc. have never been included is that the
> > patch has always been for X11. Under X, multiple draw_point() requests
> > in a row get compressed by Xlib anyhow, so draw_points() is not faster
> > in any way.
> >
> > On Windows, the first and best option would be to do something
> > similar, i.e. transparently do the compr
