Re: [gedit-list] Is there a signal for text selection?

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse icecrew nl>]

steve love schreef:
> Thanks for the response, Paolo. You'll have to forgive me; I'm pretty 
> new at this. I'm having trouble figuring out which object has the 
> "has_selection" property. Can you point me in the right direction? Or 
> perhaps tell me where to find some helpful documentation?
It is the GtkTextView which has this property (in gedit this is 
GeditView which descends from GtkSourceView which descends from 
GtkTextView). The easiest way to browse and search gtk+ documentation is 
to install the application 'devhelp'.


Jesse
> Thanks again,
> Steve
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com 
> <mailto:pborelli katamail com>> wrote:
>
>     Il giorno ven, 24/04/2009 alle 22.54 -0600, steve love ha scritto:
>     > Hello everyone,
>     >
>     > I've been RTFM'ing all evening. Is there a signal that would allow a
>     > plugin to listen for text selection? I'd like to listen for
>     selecting
>     > text by any method: double-clicking, dragging the cursor,
>     Shift+Arrow
>     > Keys, etc.
>     >
>     > Or, failing that, is there a way to listen for cursor movement
>     (after
>     > which I can test "get_has_selection")?
>     >
>
>     Since "has_selection" is a property, you can use the "notify"
>     signal to
>     see when the property changes. At that point you can grab the
>     selection
>     with get_selected()
>
>     ciao
>            Paolo
>
>     > Thanks in advance for any help.
>     >
>     > Steve
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