I apologize for maybe a newbie question, the available documents don't answer my question. I need to read a formatted file (a text file produced by a C function, formatted through fprintf) infile = fopen("./sholabo.txt", "r"); /*the formatted file to read from*/ if (infile){ char buffer[1024]; int nchars; while (1) { nchars = fread(buffer, 1, 1024, infile); gtk_text_insert (GTK_TEXT (text), NULL, NULL, NULL, buffer, nchars); if (nchars < 1024) break; } fclose (infile); } as given in the last tutorial available gives me a non formatted text in the text widget. If I do printf("%s", buffer) after fred, it gives a formatted text alright on the Xterm. The question is: what do I have to do to the txt widget so that it shows a formatted output? Henry Gall _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list