Re: scrolling windows

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:00, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

>       It doesn't seem right that a GtkScrolledWindow should
> have any knowlage of what to do when a particular `type'
> is it's child. I also don't think its smart for the GtkTextEntry
> to automaticly scroll it's parent (but smarter than the former).
>
> maybe a generalized mechanism can be built around the GtkAlignment ?
>
> I still think that for clarity's sake we should stick to writing
> that code ourselves (as the users of the lib) untill a logical
> way to implement something like that presents itself.
>
> so; in short; I sugest 
>
> g_signal_connect(insert signals here);
>
> callback() { insert code here }.

A) This is another big FAQ ... apparently tailing logs is something
   everyone wants to do...

   Would also be good if someone wanted to write this up for
   submission.

B) I don't think there is any particular reason to get the 
   scrolled window involved.

    gtk_text_buffer_insert()

   followed by:

    gtk_text_view_scroll_to_iter()
 
   should do the trick. (Maybe Havoc wants to chime in if
   this is the "canonically right" way of doing things.)

Regards,
                                                Owen