Re: Slow loading using GtkTextBuffer/TextView

[Olivier Sessink <olivier lx student wau nl>]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:22:52 +0200 "Janus N. T" <j nus person dk> wrote:
> I am loading a file into memory with g_file_get_contents and then
> converting it to utf8. Then I set the text to be contents of a
> GtkTextBuffer like this:
> gtk_text_buffer_set_text(buffer, utf8, length);

> This all works fast and each function return almost immediately. But
> when I create a new GtkTextView with the GtkTextBuffer mentioned above
> and shows it, it is still not finished loading the file it seems. Or,
> the GtkTextView is extremely slow on updating it's contents. I am not
> sure if I have made myself clear here ... but does anyone know a way to
> quickly fill a GtkTextBuffer/TextView with a lot of data?

I use
gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor(doc->buffer,data,-1);

but I have no idea if this is faster...

regards,
        Olivier
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