Re: Question about cursor event

[Bernhard Seebacher <xsphere gmx at>]

Vikram Bartakke wrote:

>  
>     Can anyone tell me whether is there any event associated with the 
> cursor which will determine the position of cursor with respect to 
> rows and columns in text area? Here is my problem - I need to find out 
> the position of the cursor and find out which row is that on. If I get 
> the row number then i can use that information for my further 
> computation. Also that will help me numbering the rows.

To determine the row and column with GtkTextView widget something like 
this should probably help:

gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_mark (buffer, &iter, 
gtk_text_buffer_get_insert (buffer));
row = gtk_text_iter_get_line (&iter);
//  '\t' only counts as one character
col = gtk_text_iter_get_line_offset (&iter);

The event you need to connect with is the "key_press_event".

Regard,
Bernhard