Re: console applications in textbuffer

[Ari Pollak <compwiz aripollak com>]

I wonder if the main terminal widget from gnome-terminal can be embedded 
in another app..

Hal Daume III wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm pretty new the GTK, but couldn't find anything addressing this in the
> docs or the archives.  I would like to run a console application in a
> TextView/TextBuffer (or the like) in my GTK2 app.  One way I could do this
> is:
>
>   - display initial stuff in window
>     - get user input*
>     - send input to app
>     - set cursor to end and display results
>     - repeat
>
> *get user input could be done by either tracking key strokes and
> memorizing them (doing smart stuff with arrows, etc.) or: note cursor pos
> before getting input, wait for enter, get text btw prev cursor pos and new
> cursor pos.
>
> Is there a better, less ad-hoc way to do this?
>
> Thanks!
>
>  - Hal



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