Re: how to get data into text view

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:23:43AM -0700, Deependra Shekhawat wrote:
> I am developing a application where-in I have to
> display the output of the command "tail -f
> /var/log/messages" into a text view.
> Now the problem is I know system() to execute the
> command but how do I re-direct the output of the
> command into Textbuffer so textview can display it.
> Once I do the above I also want the data displayed to
> be dynamically change when the file data increases
> (note I am using tail -f).

Scrap it, create a GIOChannel instead, plug it into the main
loop waiting on poll-in (i.e. G_IO_IN), and add the new
data to the text buffer in the callback function (more
GIOChannel discussion can be found in the list archives).

Yeti


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