Re: Setting scroll bars in TextView

[Olexiy Avramchenko <ath beast stu cn ua>]

James Becker wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to port an application I had working in gtk 1.2.
>
> I had several text widgets all tied to the same vertical scroll bar -
> where moving the scroll bar would cause all text widgets to scroll.
>
> I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do this with the TextView
> widget, or how it would be recommended.
>
> > From looking in the .h file, it appears that I can just reach into the
> TextView Structure directly and set the value (hadjustment)- but that
> seems a little dangerous.  When I first instantiate the textview, 
> the value is null, so I'm assuming it gets set to something later when
> data is put in the widget?
>
> It also looks like the parent class (GtkContainer) contains a function
> which looks suspiciously like it might work:
>
> gtk_container_set_focus_vadjustment() - but I can't find documentation
> of that which I understand.
>
> Any suggestions?
The standard way is to pack GtkTextView into GtkScrolledWindow.
Look at "gtk-demo/textview.c" source, you can also browse it through
'gtk-demo' program - "Text Widget" menu and tab "Source".

Olexiy