Re: [gedit-list] Is there a signal for text selection?

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno dom, 26/04/2009 alle 11.42 +0200, Jesse van den Kieboom ha
scritto:
> steve love schreef:
> > Thanks for the response, Paolo. You'll have to forgive me; I'm pretty 
> > new at this. I'm having trouble figuring out which object has the 
> > "has_selection" property. Can you point me in the right direction? Or 
> > perhaps tell me where to find some helpful documentation?
> It is the GtkTextView which has this property (in gedit this is 
> GeditView which descends from GtkSourceView which descends from 
> GtkTextView). The easiest way to browse and search gtk+ documentation is 
> to install the application 'devhelp'.
> 

Actually it is GtkTextBuffer. In this case the inheritance goes like
this:

GeditDocument inherits from GtkSourceBuffer which inherits from
GtkTextBuffer.


Ciao

	Paolo


> 
> Jesse
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Steve
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com 
> > <mailto:pborelli katamail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Il giorno ven, 24/04/2009 alle 22.54 -0600, steve love ha scritto:
> >     > Hello everyone,
> >     >
> >     > I've been RTFM'ing all evening. Is there a signal that would allow a
> >     > plugin to listen for text selection? I'd like to listen for
> >     selecting
> >     > text by any method: double-clicking, dragging the cursor,
> >     Shift+Arrow
> >     > Keys, etc.
> >     >
> >     > Or, failing that, is there a way to listen for cursor movement
> >     (after
> >     > which I can test "get_has_selection")?
> >     >
> >
> >     Since "has_selection" is a property, you can use the "notify"
> >     signal to
> >     see when the property changes. At that point you can grab the
> >     selection
> >     with get_selected()
> >
> >     ciao
> >            Paolo
> >
> >     > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >     >
> >     > Steve
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