Re: text selection

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 02/28/01 Brock wrote:
> Does anyone know how can I get (manipulate) selected text in a Gtk::Text
> widget? I want to do more than just copy/paste, though I was attempting to
> solve my problem by copying the text and then grabbing it from the
> clipboard, but I couldn't figure out how to do that either :)

You should tell us exactly what you want to do.
To get the actual text out of a Gtk::Text or Gtk::Entry widget, you
can do:
        $editable->get_chars($startpos, $endpos);

To get the actual character positions of the selection you will need
a couple of accessor I just added to the cvs version of Gtk::Editable.xs.

lupus

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