Re: gtk_text_view_get_visible_rect

["Janus N." Tøndering <j nus person dk>]

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:19, Olivier Sessink wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:23:59 +0200 "Janus N. T" <j nus person dk> wrote:
>
> > It seems the only way to get the visible area of the textview is the
> > gtk_text_view_get_visible_rect function. I don't quite understand the
> > GdkRectangle it returns and since it is not documented would someone be
> > so kind to tell what the values returned means.
> >
> > My goal is to get GtkTextIter's of the viewable area ... just as
> > gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds gives me GtkTextIter's of the whole buffer.
>
> I'm not sure, but my wild guess is that it returns coordinates, and there
> are also functions to get the buffer coordinates:
>
> gtk_text_view_window_to_buffer_coords(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(view),
> wintype,bevent->x, bevent->y,&xpos, &ypos);

Acc. to GTK2 docs it is always returning buffer coordinates -- but they
seem rather strange. So what I am looking for here, is an explanation of
the values returned. They do not seem logical at all to me.

Regards,
Janus

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