Re: Making GnomeCanvasText editable

[Cody Russell <bratsche gnome org>]

Thanks, Joe.  I'll gladly hack around on it as soon as my class schedule
calms down a bit next week.

On 19 Jul 2001 13:14:22 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On 18 Jul 2001 21:05:01 -0500, Cody Russell wrote:
> > I began working on this with the goal of having something like a
> > GtkEntry, but I think Joe Shaw is working on one based on GtkTextLayout,
> > which would be a lot more powerful.
> 
> Yeah. I'm attaching the code to this message in case anyone wants to
> hack on it; I haven't had a whole lot of time lately. I doubt it will
> build out of the box now because of the API changes to the g_signal_*
> stuff, but everything should be pretty easy. The code right now is
> pretty dirty, with an ugly mix of gobject and gtkobject, things in
> public structs that should probably be private, etc. Not an overwhelming
> amount of work, but more than I can probably devote right now.
> 
> The most notable thing lacking is AA canvas support, but looking at the
> render method in GnomeCanvasText, I shouldn't be too tough. "Zooming" is
> there, but it's just scaling the Pango fonts with the canvas scale
> factory and isn't an adequate solution.
> 
> It would be nice to get it into GNOME 2, and I'll check it in if you
> guys want, but I won't know how much I'll be able to contribute to it,
> aside from probably some cleanups. :(
> 
> Joe
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