Re: GtkTextView sizing

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Gary Benson <gary inauspicious org> writes:
> > Without getting into the big picture, the reason you get scrolling is
> > that the text view's vertical size request exceeds its allocation.
> > Which means you need to be sure it gets the whole vertical size
> > request.
>
> Yeah, I was wondering if there is any way to override this
> behaviour.

I don't see what overriding it would mean, other than making sure it
gets the whole vertical size request.
 
> That's a shame, since I really wanted to build on GtkTextView (and avoid 
> having to write an entire text editor!). Do you think I'll be unable to do 
> what I want with collections of pre-existing widgets?

I think it'll be clunky (UI not quite right). You can probably get
something that roughly works, but not something that's really
polished.

You don't need to write a text editor. I'd copy what GtkTreeView does:
it only pops up a GtkEntry when you click a row to begin editing,
normally it just draws the text itself. Look at the editable treeview
example in gtk-demo to see what I mean.

Havoc