Re: GtkTextView sizing

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Gary Benson <gary inauspicious org> writes:

> On 21 Mar 2002, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
>
> > Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Yeah, this would be a problem, since I want it to be able to handle
> arbitrary amounts of text and I want it to be word wrapped. I'd probably
> like to capitalize on the capability to have stuff like italic and bold
> text in there too.

PangoLayout is designed to do all of this pretty well.  I think you'll
get the nicest result here with a custom widget, though it may be a bit
more effort -- a GtkEntry really won't cut it.

> I guess I need to really get into the guts of how the GtkTextView and the 
> GtkScrolledView and all the various containers interact with respect to 
> sizing. It may be that junking the [HV]boxes in XiaoItem and making 
> XiaoItem be some kind of custom container that better understands what I 
> want it to do is in order.

Indeed.

-Jonathan

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