RE: Scrolling TextView, how can I make the vert scrollbar keep up ?

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

> I've made a GtkTextView widget with both a vertical and a horizontal
> scrollbar. When the TextView gets flooded with data (far more than the
> widget can display), I'd like the vertical scrollbar to autoscroll to
> always show the most recent data. Kind of like a term window.
>
> What is the magic attribute that needs to be set for this to 
> happen? I'm
> using Glade for the UI if that means anything.

Unfortunately, you can not do it with glade.  You have to do it manually in
code.

This should do the trick:

        GtkTextBuffer *buffer = NULL;
        GtkTextMark *mark = NULL;

        buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(mytextview));

      mark = gtk_text_buffer_create_mark(buffer, NULL, &iter, FALSE);
      gtk_text_view_scroll_mark_onscreen(mytextview, mark);
      gtk_text_buffer_delete_mark(buffer, mark);

Where &iter is the location you want to scroll to.  You can make this the
top most or bottom most location by using the start iter or the end iter:


        GtkTextIter iter_start, iter_end;

        gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds(buffer, &iter_start, &iter_end);

Regards,
Martyn