Re: scrolling logs in GtkTextView to the end (Re: scrolling windo ws)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:15, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:11:39PM -0000, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote: 
> > I meant in relation to the statement (which TP Muller commented on):
> >
> > "Note that line heights are computed in an idle handler; so this function
> > may not have the desired effect if it's called before the height
> > computations."
> >
> > I too have experienced the problem where by adding text to a text buffer and
> > then scrolling to the end iter (by using gtk_text_buffer_get_bounds())
> > doesn't scroll fully and half the line is missed.
> >
> > Surely scrolling to the iter should do exactly that without needing a hack
> > (as provided by TP Muller) which scrolls on an idle timeout?
>
> You don't need that hack, you just need to use scroll_to_mark.
>
> Scroll to iter *does* do exactly that. However, then the size of the
> buffer changes and you need to re-scroll. So what you have to do is
> save a mark which is scrolled to later.

Wouldn't it be possible to make scroll-to-iter create an anonymous
mark and do this behind-the-scenes in the case where the tree is
not fully validated?
                                        Owen