Re: GtkTextView sizing

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> 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.
>
> 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.

I'm not 100% happy with this, as it can't handle multi-line text well.
I don't know if that's an issue with Xiao, but I would definitely like
to fix this at some point for GtkCellRendererText.

-Jonathan