Re: Which window widget to use?

[Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi presidency com>]

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 14:21, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I'm porting a modeling system from Microsoft to linux and initially the
> main UI will be a plain window on which the application writes output and
> accepts input; the GUI equivalent of printf() and scanf().
> 
>   What's the widget I want to use in gtk+2? I see viewports and other such
> widgets, but I really don't need dialog boxes (except, perhaps, for error
> messages). Just a window to which I can write and read with a menu on top.

You could have a window with a menu at the top, a GtkTextView widget for
output and finally a GtkEntry (or GtkTextView for multiple lines) for
input

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