On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 06:26, Axel wrote: > Text Widget Overview in API doesn' t talk about it and its API isn' t > very explainative... > so, what is the utility of GtkTextIter ? I have used them for getting text from a textview GtkTextIter textiterstart; GtkTextIter textiterend;
textbuffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(propdata->comments_area)); gtk_text_buffer_get_start_iter(textbuffer, &textiterstart); gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter(textbuffer, &textiterend); comments = gtk_text_buffer_get_text(textbuffer, &textiterstart, &textiterend, TRUE); Iterators are used to mark a position in a datastructure (in this case a null terminated string). They provide an interface for accessing data and walking data in a liniar fashion (Iterating over a data structure). > > Another question : I d like to display some text in border of windows(in > particulary a TextView) what should I use for that? > I don't understand the question. Borders are drawn by the windows manager and there is no way to embed widgets in them. You can change the titlebar text but the gnome-HIG cautions against it. -- J5 _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list