Re: Problem selecting a region in a GtkTextBuffer

[Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca>]

Dixit Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca> (2003-03-26 22:37):
> I am having problems with code that should select a region in a GTK+
> text buffer but does not appear to work.
        [...]
>     gtk_text_buffer_place_cursor(buf, &start_it);
>     gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_offset(buf, &end_it, end);
>     mark = gtk_text_buffer_get_selection_bound(buf);
>     gtk_text_buffer_move_mark(buf, mark, &end_it);

I seem to have found the cause.  After this code, in the application
I'm developing, there was a call to gtk_editable_select_region() on
a GtkEntry situated in the same top-level window as the GtkTextView.
By suspending that call, the highlighting appeared in the GtkTextView
as wanted.

-- 
Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>