Anybody have any idea reg my GTK TextBox qeury..plz Help!

[s k <gtk_som yahoo com>]

--- s k <gtk_som yahoo com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     Im developing a test application for a driver
> and
> i have a text box that takes text from the user as
> input to a databuffer and this databuffer is sent
> down
> to the driver whenever i click a button that issues
> an
> ioctl to the driver
>
> Now i have 2 problems related to this:
> 1. Firstly i want to limit the text the user can
> input
> i.e after the user types in say some 512 chars the
> cursor must automatically stop indicating thats the
> max input it can take ...right now i have linewrap
> on.
> 2. After writing some text ,and click of the 'Issue'
> button i use gtk_backward_delete(gtk_text_length) to
> clear off the text that was there and this seems to
> work fine as long as the text is not changed between
> button clicks..now the moment i change the text say
> for eg after one button click if the text was say
> 'sam' ,then  i click 'Issue' and then before the
> next
> click if i (user ) deletes sam and writes 'ram' and
> then clicks the 'Issue' button the previous text ie
> sam gets conatenated to give me 'ramsam' which is
> not
> what i want ...
> Please let me know how i can clear off the contents
> of
> the text box after each click of the 'Issue 'Button?
>
> Thanks n Regards
> Som
>
>
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