Re: Scroll to bottom of window...

[sanny chawla <sanny chawla gmail com>]

You can also try getting the insert mark and then scroll to visible area 
of the textview using gtk_text_view_scroll_to_mark .

GtkTextMark "insert" can be retrieved like this :
insert =gtk_text_buffer_get_insert (buffer);

Regards,
Sanny

Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 2008/4/22, David Conley (FRD) <dconley frd co uk>:
>   
> > I'm trying to write a app that has a small text window that fills with
> >  text from another thread. Its all working fine but the text is dropping
> >  off the end of the window. Really what I'd like is for the scroll window
> >  the text view is in to automatically scroll to the bottom to show the
> >  latest message added. I suspect I need to use
> >  gtk_scrolled_window_set_vadjustment(GTK_SCROLLED_WINDOW(scroll), adj);
> >  but what I set my adjustment to I have no idea. Anyone got any tips.
> >     
>
> What you rather want to do is to _get_ the vadjustment (which is a
> GtkAdjustment object) and set it's value to the upper bound of it
> (which translates to "the scrollbar to the end position"). Something
> like this:
>
>   vadj = gtk_scrolled_window_get_vadjustment(swin);
>   gtk_adjustment_set_value(vadj, vadj->upper);
>
> Depending on the widget you use, there might be even better ways to do
> this, but this should work if you always just want to go to the end.
>
>