Re: get text from GtkText

[Maciej Hrebien <m_hrebien wp pl>]

Thomas Mailund wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2001-08-28 at 21:48, guigtk wrote:
> > Is there any way to get the text that i wrote in a GtkText?
> >
> 
> With the (old) text widget you can use
> 
> gchar*     gtk_editable_get_chars      (GtkEditable      *editable,
>                                         gint              start_pos,
>                                         gint              end_pos);
> 
> so to get all the text in 'text' you use
> 
> gchar *my_text = gtk_editable_get_chars (GTK_EDITABLE (text), 0, -1);

What about memory? Does GTK allocates (new) memory for this chars
pointed by my_text? From the other hand: do I have to free memory
pointed by my_text after using it??

-- 
Maciej Hrebien