Re: Scrolling to end of scrolled window when first displayed

[jcupitt gmail com]

2008/5/14 John M Collins <jmc xisl com>:
> I have a GtkTextView displaying some text - actually a log file in a
> Scrolled Window.
>
> I should like it to start off with the scroll at the bottom of the file
> - i.e. showing the most recent entry in the log file.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> I have tried:
>
> gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter(textbuf, &iter);
> gtk_text_view_scroll_to_iter(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(view), &iter, 0.0, FALSE,
> 0.0, 1.0);
>
> But neither work initially - however they do work in callbacks once the
> window is up and running.

I found gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark() worked even when the window was
unmapped. Something like:

        gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter( text_buffer, &iter );
        gtk_text_buffer_move_mark( text_buffer, mark, &iter );
        gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark( text_view, mark,
                0.0, TRUE, 0.5, 1 );

John