Re: How do you programatically set the selected range in a GtkTextView?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Nicholas Allen - Sun Ireland - Software Engineer <nicholas allen ireland sun com> writes:
>  I am wondering: how does one programatically set the selection for
> a text view to a range of characters?

Move the "insert" or "selection_bound" mark.

> I find it strange that the GtkTextBuffer manages the currently
> selected range and not the GtkTextView. The selection is much more a
> visual thing and should be associated with the view not the buffer
> surely. What's the point of being able to have multiple text views if
> they have to have the same selected text?

It's essentially an accident, the text widget is a port of TkText and
it worked this way, and no one noticed the issue in time to change it.

There are workarounds though, see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57050

Havoc