Re: Developing a new text editor widget?

2016-06-05 Thread Rena
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not going to the GTK+ hackfest, but there is one subject listed on > the wiki page that I want to talk about: textview/sourceview > replacements. > > Christian talked a bit about it here: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-d

Help with Gtkmm and diamond inheritance pattern

2016-03-19 Thread Rena
I'm writing a C++ application and I want it to provide a generic UI interface, which under the hood might be using GTK, Win32, etc. The goal is that the app can be compiled with support for one or more UI backends and the user can choose one at runtime, or at least that one backend can be selected

Custom TextBuffer

2015-08-29 Thread Rena
I want to use a TextView to display information as marked-up text. This information is generated on the fly and would span millions of lines that the user can page through. It seems like the idea would just be to subclass GtkTextBuffer to provide my own methods for "get text in a particular range",

Tutorial on writing widgets?

2014-07-17 Thread Rena
Is there any tutorial on how to make a library that provides a GTK widget, like GtkGlExt or GtkSourceView, but for GTK+ 3? I want to write such a library, but I can't find a guide on how to do it, and existing libraries are proving too complex for me to learn from with no other references. -- Sen

Writing my own widgets and making them available via introspection

2013-09-18 Thread Rena
I've been using GTK+ with the Lua binding lgi to write simple apps and UIs, and it's really pleasant to work with. I'm wondering if somewhere there's a page explaining how I would go about writing my own widgets, such that they'd be available to all apps using introspection, and bindings such as lg