Re: GTK - Horizontal Scrollbar not working

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Vikram S Bartakke <vikram unm edu> writes:

> Hi list,
>
>     I am writing a simple text editor for our specific application. I 
> want to make use of scrollbars. I could easily make work Vertical 
> scrollbar but not the horizontal scrollbar. So after the maximum width 
> of text widget, an arrow appears and the the word is shown in the next 
> line. I am sure this is because horizontal scrollbars functionality is 
> not working. I would highly appriciate if anyone can explain me how to 
> use horizontal scrollbars, or else send me the code snippet for the same

The old GtkText widget does not support horizontal scrolling. (One
of it's many problems.) Use GTK+-2 and GtkTextView.

Regards,
                                        Owen