Detecting mouse press in GtkText

[Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca>]

I am using a Gtk_Text in Gtk-- 1.0 and GTK+ 1.2.3 to display a
sentence. When the user clicks or double-clicks on a character of
that sentence, I want to be notified of the character position at
which the mouse pointer was. Is there a way to have that?

I am able to capture the button press events that the Gtk_Text
receives as a class derived from Gtk_Widget, but the associated
GdkEventButton object specifies the mouse pointer position in pixels,
not in characters.

Note that the Gtk_Text is never editable.

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Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip@sympatico.ca> http://www3.sympatico.ca/sarrazip/en