Re: GtkText vs GtkTextView

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

January Weiner 3 <jweiner1 ix urz uni-heidelberg de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> > "Dugas, Alan" <alan dugas analog com> writes:
> > > Does anyone know if the new GtkTextView will be more efficient at working
> > > with large amounts of text than Gtktext?
> >
> > Yes, it is more efficient. (with some more memory use to save CPU time.)
>
> Erm, `the new GtkTextView' -- does it mean it comes with gtk 2.x? And if
> yes, do you know of any workarounds for 1.2? My program is supposed to work
> on DNA sequences, which, as you may be aware of, are sometimes quite huge.
> Still, editing large sequences will probably happen not very often, and I
> wouldn't like to break compatibility -- most systems ship with gtk 1.2. Any
> ideas? Right now even a small 1MB text file is already sometimes a problem :-(

There are various replacement text widgets available, such as
GtkExText.

Havoc